Courting is usually a chore — however for Meghann Fahy’s single-mother character within the upcoming Blumhouse thriller “Drop,” it will probably additionally rapidly flip right into a lethal recreation of iPhone cat and mouse.
Directed and co-written (with Jillian Jacobs) by Christopher Landon (“Pleased Loss of life Day”), the film stars Fahy as a girl on an elegant first date who’s simply beginning to hit it off with the good-looking man (Brandon Sklenar, “It Ends With Us”) throughout the desk from her when her cellphone begins buzzing with notifications. Somebody within the restaurant is Airdropping messages to her… messages that turn out to be more and more private and threatening once they embrace pictures of her son. The principles to saving her boy are easy: She will’t inform anybody what’s occurring… and she or he has to kill her date.
If anybody can accomplish so much with simply facial expressions, although, it is likely to be Fahy, who scored an Emmy nomination for her work on “The White Lotus” Season 2.
The trailer reveals the film to be luminously shot and suffused with some intense motion sequences — together with considered one of Fahy hanging out of a shattered image window. Landon is aware of a factor or two about establishing artful thrillers; along with the “Pleased Loss of life Day” franchise, he’s the director behind
“Freaky” and “We Have a Ghost.”
Becoming a member of Fahy within the solid are Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, and Ed Weeks.
“Drop” is produced by Jason Blum (“5 Nights at Freddy’s,” “M3GAN”) for Blumhouse and by Michael Bay (“Transformers” movies, “A Quiet Place” franchise), Brad Fuller (“A Quiet Place” movies, “The Purge” franchise). and Cameron Fuller (the upcoming “Flycatcher and The Astronaut”) for Platinum Dunes. Ron Lynch and Sam Lerner are govt producers.
Common will drop “Drop” in theaters April 11. Watch the trailer under. And bear in mind to show your cellphone to Do Not Disturb while you’re on a date.