Sophie Cookson, the space-bound Roxy in Februarys spy hit Kingsman: The Secret Service (above), will lead supernatural horror film Hush, about a pair of sibling ghost hunters.
Screen Daily reports Cookson will play a young woman who runs a ghostbusting ring with her sibling in the film. When the pair investigate a haunted foster home where a sadistic killer used to operate, they uncover a far more terrifying supernatural force.
Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson (Brave Mens Blood) directs Hush. Writer Ben Ketai adapts from a work by author EM Blomqvist. The novellas synopsis expands: Angela Sayers is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Convinced by her controlling brother to stop taking her medication, Angela’s world unravels just a little more when she discovers she can communicate with the dead. It’s not a welcome revelation. Her dead mother was driven mad by this gift. Eager to capitalize on their mother’s fame as a medium, her brother forces Angela to publically become the unwilling heir apparent. Soon, Sayers’ Medium Services is shamelessly exploiting the fears of the most vulnerable-the elderly, the feeble-minded, the grieving-for obscene profit. Uncertain if her increasingly fragile state of mind is caused by lack of medication, sleep deprivation, or guilt, Angela endures a plague of sleepless nights. If she’s going to have any semblance of a future, she knows she must find a way to confront her own demons-including the fear that it’s all in her head. When they are hired to cleanse an old orphanage that is genuinely haunted, it’s up to Angela to get everyone out alive. But with reality slipping away, can she escape the prison of her mind long enough to save them?
Brian Coffey (Citadel, Starred Up) and Danny Sherman are producing. Hush shoots this October in Scotland.
