Carry-On Director Jaume Collet-Serra Finds Next Project in Thriller Movie Play Dead

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Carry-On Director Jaume Collet-Serra Finds Next Project in Thriller Movie Play Dead

Carry-On director Jaume Collet-Serra has found his next project.

Collet-Serra recently directed Carry-On, the hit Netflix movie that stars Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman. He’s also worked with Liam Neeson on a number of movies, including 2011’s Unknown, 2014’s Non-Stop, and more.

Per Deadline, Collet-Serra has now been tapped to helm a new survival thriller movie titled Play Dead.

What else do we know about Jaume Collet-Serra’s Play Dead movie?

Plot details for Play Dead remain under wraps at this time; however, Deadline’s sources described the movie as “Don’t Breathe meets 1917.” The former title is the 2016 horror movie directed by Fede Álvarez, while the latter is the war movie from Sam Mendes that was released in 2019.

The script comes from Peter Stanley-Ward & Natalie Conway. Akiva Nemetsky and Keaton Heinrichs are producing the film for Nocturnal alongside Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert for Ghost House Pictures, JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules for BoulderLight Pictures, and Dane Eckerle for Bad Grey. Scott Greenberg serves as an executive producer.

Collet-Serra made his feature film directorial debut in 2005 with House of Wax. He followed that up with 2007’s Goal II: Living the Dream and 2009’s Orphan before he then went on to helm Unknown and Non-Stop.

He then reteamed with Neeson again for 2015’s Run All Night before directing Blake Lively in 2016’s The Shallows. Following that was another Neeson action movie, 2018’s The Commuter. After that, he worked with Dwayne Johnson on two movies: 2021’s Jungle Cruise and 2022’s Black Adam.

Prior to Stay Dead, Collet-Serra’s The Woman in the Yard is releasing in United States theaters on March 28, 2025. That movie is a psychological horror film that stars Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Russell Hornsby. Additionally, Collet-Serra has been tapped to direct a reboot of 1993’s Cliffhanger starring Lily James and Pierce Brosnan.

A release date for Play Dead has not yet been announced.