Jamie Lee Curtis wrapped up her time in the Halloween franchise with Halloween Ends back in 2022 – and three years after she left the Laurie Strode character behind (and went on to win an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once), we heard that she would be returning to the horror genre to produce and star in the psychological horror thriller Sender. Now, that project is set to make its debut at the SXSW film festival, and a pair of images have dropped online! You can check them out at the bottom of this article.
Cast and Synopsis
Curtis is joined in the cast by Britt Lower (Severance), David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), and Anna Baryshnikov (Love Lies Bleeding).
The feature directorial debut of Russell Goldman, Sender is based on Return to Sender, Goldman’s award-winning 2022 short that he later adapted into a 2023 Black List script. Lower takes on the role of a woman who experiences an e-commerce package delivery scam that becomes so personal and disturbing that she becomes hellbent on discovering the identity of her anonymous sender.
Behind the Scenes
Curtis produced the film for Comet Pictures alongside Molly Hallam and Jake Katofsky. Akshay Shah, Lower and Goldman are executive producers on the project, with Thomas Grabinski, Eric Baird, Cesar Vega, and Mireia Vilanova co-producing. Verve Ventures attached Hallam to the project and represents the film for North American sales.
Curtis and Goldman previously collaborated on the graphic novel Mother Nature, which was based on an idea Curtis had been thinking of since the late 1970s. Curtis had been planning to make her own feature directorial debut with an adaptation of that graphic novel. She announced six years ago that she would be teaming up with Blumhouse Productions for that project, but we haven’t heard much more about it. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the version of the story they were developing then proved to be too cost-prohibitive, but she is still hoping to get the movie made with Goldman directing.
Curtis and Goldman are also planning a project called Closed Set, which would be about “an intimacy coordinator who goes rogue, and it becomes like Fatal Attraction.”
In the meantime, we have Sender to look forward to, and the images from the film can be seen right here:
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