{"id":25858,"date":"2024-09-03T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=25858"},"modified":"2024-09-03T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T17:24:57","slug":"speak-no-evil-featurette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=25858","title":{"rendered":"Speak No Evil : Featurette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>From Blumhouse, the producer of\u00a0<strong>The Black Phone<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Get Out<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0The Invisible Man<\/strong>, comes an intense suspense thriller for our modern age, starring BAFTA award-winner James McAvoy (<strong>Split<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0Glass<\/strong>) in a riveting performance as the charismatic, alpha-male estate owner whose untrammeled hospitality masks an unspeakable darkness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speak No Evil<\/strong>\u00a0stars Mackenzie Davis (<strong>Terminator: Dark Fate<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Halt and Catch Fire<\/strong>) and SAG award-winner Scoot McNairy (<strong>Argo<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>A Quiet Place Part II<\/strong>) as American couple Louise and Ben Dalton, who, along with their 11-year-old daughter Agnes (<strong>Alix West Lefler<\/strong>;\u00a0<strong>The Good Nurse<\/strong>, <strong>Riverdale<\/strong>), accept the weekend-holiday invitation of Paddy (<strong>McAvoy<\/strong>), his wife Ciara (<strong>Aisling Franciosi;\u00a0Game of Thrones<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>The Fall<\/strong>) and their furtive, mute son Ant (newcomer Dan Hough).<\/p>\n<p>Written for the screen and directed by James Watkins, the writer-director of\u00a0Eden Lake\u00a0and the award-winning gothic ghost story\u00a0<strong>The Woman in Black<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Speak No Evil\u00a0<\/strong>is based on the screenplay of the 2022 Danish horror sensation\u00a0G\u00e6sterne,\u00a0written by Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup. That film earned 11 Danish Film Awards nominations, the Danish equivalent of the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speak No Evil<\/strong>\u00a0is produced by Jason Blum (<strong>Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>M3GAN<\/strong>) for Blumhouse and by Paul Ritchie (<strong>McMafia<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>The Ipcress File<\/strong>) and is executive produced by Beatriz Sequeira for Blumhouse, Jacob Jarek and Christian Tafdrup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong>:\u00a0Psychological Thriller<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cast<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=James+McAvoy\">James McAvoy<\/a>, Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler, Dan Hough and Scoot McNairy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Written for the Screen and Directed by<\/strong>: James Watkins<\/p>\n<p><strong>Based on the screenplay by<\/strong>:\u00a0Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producers:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0089658\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Jason Blum<\/a>, Paul Ritchie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Executive Producers<\/strong>:\u00a0Beatriz Sequeira, Jacob Jarek, Christian Tafdrup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare. 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