According to The Hollywood Reporter, Underworld vet Scott Speedman has been tapped to join the Sunflower cast for Lionsgate’s upcoming horror thriller, which hails from Lovecraft Country creator Misha Green. Speedman will be joining previously announced leading stars Jurnee Smollett and Isabel May. Production is slated to begin in the spring of 2024 in South Africa.
Speedman is no stranger to the horror genre after previously starring in 2008’s The Strangers movie and 2016’s The Monster. He’s also best known for his role as the Lycan/Vampire hybrid Michael Corvin in the Underworld film franchise.
What to expect in Sunflower?
Sunflower will be written and directed by Green (Heroes, Underground). The film will center around two women who get held hostage by a deranged college professor who’s keeping them on a remote sunflower farm. The thriller drama will serve as a reunion project for Smollett and Green after previously working together on HBO’s acclaimed horror series Lovecraft Country.
“Everyone at our studio was completely drawn in by the way Misha, Jurnee, and the Lovecraft Country team worked so confidently to create a compelling genre series — then subverted the genre and reinvented it through a new lens,” President of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, Nathan Kahane said in a previous statement. “That’s the opportunity with Sunflower. The screenplay is unique, thrilling, and flat-out scary. It’s going to make a hell of a movie.”
The film is produced by Craig J. Flores for Bread and Circuses Entertainment. Lionsgate has tapped Meredith Wieck and Aaron Edmonds to oversee the project on behalf of the studio.
