Breathe: Jennifer Hudson, Milla Jovovich, Sam Worthington, and more to star in action-thriller

Stefon Bristol is preparing to take audiences into terrifying territory with Breathe, a new action-thriller that sounds like it will take your breath away. Bristol directs from a Black List screenplay by Doug Simon (Demonic), with production set to kick off in Pennsylvania this summer. The movie is described as an “edge-of-your-seat survival thriller,” and the primary cast members have already been announced.

Set to star in Breathe are Jennifer Hudson (Respect, Dreamgirls), Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element, Monster Hunter), Sam Worthington (Avatar: The Way of Water, Clash of the Titans), Quvenzhané Wallis (Annie, Beasts of the Southern Wild), and Common (John Wick: Chapter 2, Wanted).

According to Deadline, Breathe follows a mother named Maya (Hudson) and her daughter (Wallis), who are forced to live underground after Earth is made uninhabitable due to a lack of oxygen. Only short trips to the surface are made possible by a state-of-art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband Darius (Common), whom she presumes to be dead. When a mysterious couple arrives claiming to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to let them into their bunker but are they all they appear to be?

Capstone Global will be bringing Breathe to the Cannes market next week. Thunder Road Films’ Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee and Capstone’s Christian Mercuri produce. Capstone’s Ruzanna Kegeyan executive produces alongside David Haring, Esther Hornstein, and Will Flynn.

Would you welcome a mysterious couple into your only haven for survival? What sort of vetting process exists for a situation like that? I wonder what happened to the world to make it so uninhabitable. We’ll have to wait for Breathe to be released to find out. In the meantime, let us know if you think the concept for this movie sounds cool in the comments section below.