Millie Brady (The Last Kingdom) and Pollyanna McIntosh (The Walking Dead) star in the horror thriller Double Blind, which is currently filming in Ireland. The feature directorial debut of Ian Hunt-Duffy, Double Blind also stars Brenock O’Connor (Game of Thrones), Abby Fitz (The Cellar), Shonagh Marie (Britannia), Diarmuid Noyes (Borgia), Frank Blake (The Frankenstein Chronicles), and Akshay Kumar (Mission Mangal).
Scripted by Darach McGarrigle, the film will follow
seven strangers taking part in a paid drug trial that become trapped in the lab after the side effects of the study escalate the situation into a nightmarish scenario – if they fall asleep, they die.
Double Blind is coming to us from Epic Pictures Group, Screen Ireland, and Failsafe Films, a company Hunt-Duffy runs with Simon Doyle. Hunt-Duffy had this to say about the project:
I’m delighted to be shooting Double Blind with the support of Epic and Screen Ireland. As a filmmaker I am deeply passionate about creating original, suspenseful, and intelligent genre cinema, and I believe that the hook of our story — fall asleep and you die — is so evocative and memorable. It takes something ordinary and innocent and makes it deadly. We have a fantastic ensemble cast led by Millie Brady and horror icon Pollyanna McIntosh, so I cannot wait for audiences to experience the tension, claustrophobia, and dread that we have in store.”
Epic Pictures Group’s Patrick Ewald added:
Epic is thrilled to continue our partnership with Screen Ireland and bring Ian’s first feature film to the market. We have been working with Simon and Failsafe to develop a compelling and commercial script for buyers and are excited to see it come to life with Pollyanna and Millie as stars.”
Epic Pictures Group will be presenting the project to potential distributions at the Marché du Film in Cannes next month.
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