Fresh off of working with the Radio Silence production company on Ready or Not: Here I Come, Sarah Michelle Gellar has signed on to star in another Radio Silence production, a supernatural romance called Thud. Deadline reports that this one will see Gellar taking on the role of the Grim Reaper and sharing the screen with Rudy Pankow (Outer Banks), who will be playing the Devil. Director Mali Elfman, who made her feature directorial debut with the genre-bending 2022 film Next Exit, is at the helm.
What is Thud about?
Scripted by Noga Pnueli (Meet Cute), Thud watches as the Grim Reaper and the Devil meet cute at a three-day destination wedding, falling in love after colliding at the event, where they’ve each come to sow their own chaos.
Derek Bishé and David Grove Churchill Viste are producing the film, which will shoot in Los Angeles with a California tax credit. Radio Silence‘s Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin serve as executive producers alongside Helmstreet Productions’ Lindsay Helms and Joel Nevells, Divide/Conquer‘s Greg Gilreath and Adam Hendricks, Dan Lawler, and Pnueli.
Pnueli’s script for the time travel romantic comedy Meet Cute was featured on the Black List. Alex Lehmann directed the film, which was released in 2022. Another Pnueli script, High Society, was also featured on the Black List, and is in development at Legitimate Pictures and Peacock. Also in 2022, Pnueli wrote and directed the time reversal sci-fi dramedy Deborah.
Aside from making Next Exit, Mali Elfman has directed multiple short films over the years, including an animated short called The Scariest Skeleton (for an anthology project called Dark Corners) that saw her working alongside the likes of Stephen King, Paul Tremblay, and Kate Siegel. She also has many producing credits, including Mike Flanagan’s Before I Wake, Karen Gillan’s The Party’s Just Beginning, the horror anthology Scare Package, Lee Moss’s Birth/Rebirth, Gary Shore’s Haunting of the Queen Mary, Tina Romero’s Queens of the Dead, and more.
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