Written and directed by “Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail, Panic Carefully is described as being in the vein of “Mr. Robot” and The Silence of the Lambs.
Warner Bros. has set a February 27, 2027 release date for the film in theaters and IMAX. It will open against CoComelon: The Movie.
Julia Roberts leads the star-studded cast, which also includes Eddie Redmayne (Fantastic Beasts), Brian Tyree Henry (Godzilla vs. Kong), Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line), Aidan Gillen (“Game of Thrones”), Joe Alwyn (The Favourite), Naledi Murray (“Sweet Tooth”), and Elizabeth Olsen (“WandaVision”).
Esmail previously directed Roberts in Netflix’s Leave the World Behind.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the paranoid thriller is said to involve the hunt for cyber-terrorist.
Esmail and Chad Hamilton produce for Esmail Corp. (“Mr. Robot”), along with Roberts, Scott Stuber (Frankenstein), Marisa Yeres Gill (Leave the World Behind), and Lisa Gillan (Leave the World Behind). Kevin McCormick and Chrystal Li are overseeing the project for Warner Bros.
After Panic Carefully, Esmail will helm the mystery sci-fi feature Tesseract with Glen Powell attached to star.
Stay tuned for more details on both projects as we learn them.
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