Elizabeth Olsen has joined Julia Roberts on the cast list for Sam Esmail’s upcoming thriller ‘Panic Carefully.’
Plot details are under lock and key but it is said to be in the same vein as Esmail’s Emmy and Golden Globe winner ‘Mr. Robot,’ as well as ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’
Esmail and Chad Hamilton will produce for Email Corp., along with Scott Stuber, Roberts, Marisa Yeres Gill, and Lisa Gillan. Kevin McCormick and Chrystal Li are overseeing the project for Warner Bros. The production is set to begin in England in January.
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Email and Roberts are reuniting on the project after working together on ‘Leave the World Behind,’ an apocalyptic thriller, based on the 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam, which premiered on Netflix in November 2023.
Recently, Olsen starred in a role opposite Carrie Coon and Natasha Lyonne in ‘His Three Daughters,’ Netflix’s family drama from Azazel Jacobs, which she also executive produced. She also headlined Max’s miniseries ‘Love & Death,’ as axe murderer Candy Montgomery. Her upcoming projects include A24’s’ Eternity,’ a romantic comedy she executive produced and stars opposite Miles Teller and Callum Turner.
