EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova (The Apprentice) and Georgina Campbell (Barbarian) will star alongside LaKeith Stanfield and 2025 Just For Laughs New Face Zavior Phillips in Double Blind, a new indie thriller from filmmaker John Hyams (Alone), sources tell Deadline.
While unconfirmed, we’re told the film follows a scientist developing a cure for dementia who starts “losing time,” watching as his everyday life spirals out of control. What starts as a few lost minutes quickly becomes lost hours and lost days. When he comes out of his latest blackout and sees he has a child he didn’t have before, and a palatial home he doesn’t recognize, it becomes a race against time to puzzle the pieces together, before he loses everything.
Character details are under wraps, and producer credits for the project haven’t yet been disclosed.
In the last year, Bakalova has starred as Ivana Trump, opposite Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, in the buzzy Cannes title The Apprentice from Ali Abbasi. She’s also starred in and produced Peter Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva’s indie Triumph, which was Bulgaria’s official Oscar entry for Best International Feature this past season. Next up, she’ll be starring alongside Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh in the Apple pic Mayday from John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. She is repped by CAA, Insight Management, Brookside Artist Management and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman.
Best known for starring in Zach Cregger’s breakout horror film Barbarian, Campbell has since then starred in titles like Influencers, The Watchers opposite Dakota Fanning, and Bird Box: Barcelona. She is repped by UTA, Independent Talent Group, Entertainment 360, and Felker Toczek Suddleson.
Next to be seen in films like Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman and Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, Stanfield is repped by CAA, Stark Management and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.
Phillips is a writer, actor, and comedian who was most recently cast in Bad Monkey Season 2 at Apple TV+ in a series regular role alongside lead Vince Vaughn. He has opened for acts like Nate Bargatze, Rosebud Baker, and Caleb Hearon, recently toured all over the U.S. with Connor Wood and Maggie Winters, and is repped by Verve and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
Best known for helming the thriller Alone starring Maarc Menchaca, Hyams has also helmed films including doc The Smashing Machine on former MMA fighter Mark Kerr — the subject of A24’s forthcoming film of the same name, starring Dwayne Johnson – and All Square, among others. He’s also directed episodes of shows like Chicago P.D., The Recruit and The Rookie and is repped by Echo Lake Entertainment and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.
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