JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray recently had the chance to catch a SXSW screening of the 87North/XYZ-produced dark action comedy Over Your Dead Body, and you can check out his review at THIS LINK. A wider audience will have the chance to watch the movie when it reaches theatres nationwide on April 24th… and with that date right around the corner, a new trailer has dropped online! You can watch it in the embed above.
Cast and Synopsis
Coming our way from director Jorma Taccone (MacGruber and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping), Over Your Dead Body sports an amazing ensemble cast, including Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother), Samara Weaving (Ready or Not 2), Timothy Olyphant (Justified), Juliette Lewis (From Dusk Till Dawn), Paul Guilfoyle (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), and retired mixed martial artist Keith Jardine (Godless).
The film is based on director Tommy Wirkola’s 2021 Norwegian thriller, I Onde Dager, which starred Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie. The screenplay by Wirkola, John Niven, and Nick Ball has been reworked by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney. The original film had the following synopsis: Eager to end their marriage by murdering each other, a husband and wife head to a remote cabin — but soon find themselves facing an even bigger threat. The remake is said to follow a dysfunctional couple (Segel and Weaving) who head to a remote cabin to “reconnect”, but each has secret intentions to kill the other.
Here’s the full synopsis: When miserable couple Dan and Lisa retreat to a remote cabin for a romantic reset, each arrives with a secret plan to murder the other. Their carefully plotted traps and counterplots quickly unravel when a dangerous crew crashes the weekend with plans of their own. As the toxic getaway spirals into chaotic carnage, Dan and Lisa must survive the intruders, each other, and figure out if they want to save their marriage or survive it.
XYZ is financing and producing the new film with 87North’s Kelly McCormick, Lee Kim, and Guy Danella. Taccone and Wirkola serve as executive producers alongside Jørgen Storm Rosenberg and Kjetil Omberg, who produced the original film for 74 Entertainment. Actress Karen Gillan, who happens to be married to writer Nick Kocher, is co-producing.
In Bumbray’s review, he said that he didn’t enjoy the first half of the film, but “was surprisingly engaged by it by the halfway point. Segel and Weaving’s chemistry in the second half, along with the inventive action scenes, make it worth checking out, even if it takes almost too long to get going.” The action packed into the second half saved it from a negative review, as Bumbray ended up giving it an “average” 6/10.
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