Misha Green is teaming back up with Jurnee Smollett for the Lionsgate thriller Sunflower.
The thriller centers on two women struggling to escape from a deranged college professor who holds them hostage on a remote sunflower farm.
This will be the third project Green and Smollett work on together. They worked together on the WGN series Underground and again on Lovecraft Country. So it’s safe to say, these two have great working chemistry and we can expect a great film. They are also expected to work together again on a Birds of Prey spinoff.
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“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,” said Nathan Kahane, President of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group. “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.”
Green is making her feature film directorial debut off a script she penned and produced with Craig J. Flores and his Bread and Circuses Entertainment banner.
“Sunflower was the first script I sold when I landed in Hollywood, and now having the opportunity to make it my first feature directorial outing feels like kismet,” Green added. “I couldn’t have hoped for better partners and collaborators than Nathan, the Lionsgate team, Craig, and Jurnee to help me shepherd it to the big screen.”
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Meredith Wieck and Aaron Edmonds will oversee the project for Lionsgate. The deals were negotiated for the studio by Dan Freedman. Production is expected to begin in the summer.