Sarah Snook-led Sundance horror film swiftly finds a home at Netflix
Netflix is reportedly slating a 2023 release for the Australia-set psychological horror film Run Rabbit Run
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Since she first started playing Siobhan Roy on HBO’s Succession in 2018, Sarah Snook has proven she knows her way around father-daughter carnage. But in Run Rabbit Run, a new nightmare from director Daina Reid that premiered last night at Sundance, she takes on a different kind of familial horror: motherhood.
Yesterday, per Variety, Netflix snagged rights in the U.S. and multiple other international territories to Run Rabbit Run; the streamer is reportedly eyeing a 2023 release for the project, shot on location in Australia. Included in Sundance as part of the festival’s Midnight slate, Run Rabbit Run joined highly-anticipated films like Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool, sister heist romp Polite Society, and the Day One premiere of another motherhood-based horror film, birth/rebirth.
In the film, Snook plays a fertility doctor with “a firm understanding of the cycle of life.” But when her daughter begins to take on increasingly strange behaviors, she’s forced to challenge that understanding— and confront a skeleton in her closet. Snook—who also produced the project—stars alongside Lily LaTorre, Damon Herriman, and Greta Scacchi.
Celebrating the pickup, Snook posted to Instagram on Friday morning lauding her cast and crewmates for their success.
“Bravo bravo to all involved,” Snook shares in the Instagram story. “So proud of this film.”
With the new deal, Netflix has rights to the film in all territories save Benelux, Portugal, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nordics, and Taiwan. The film joins a number of other Australian projects Netflix has pushed forward recently, including crime drama The Stranger, Jessica Watson biopic True Spirit, a limited series based on Trent Dalton’s Australian novel “Boy Swallows Universe,” and series Heartbreak High.
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ya got SNOOKED, son!I think I remember enjoying Jessabelle, which was kind of her breakout role…there were a few other odd small netflix-horror type ones that were kind of interesting back then also like Jug Face
Predestination! She is every role!
That’s how I was introduced to her. And you’re slighting Noah Taylor!I remember Jug Face featured Lauren Ashley Carter, who’s also done horror for Lucky McKee, Mickey Keating & Joe Begos. Its own director, Chad Crawford Kinkle, doesn’t seem to have done much since though.
I thought that read “Snookied” for a hot second. I’m both greatly relieved and greatly disappointed.
I can’t wait for Netflix to decide not to air this movie.
That’s a hbomax thing but nice attempt at a joke.
Another plug for Sarah Snook’s performance in Predestination.Ethan Hawke is excellent as we’d expect but she more than holds her own with him, the two of them are brilliant in the film. Go see it if you haven’t and see it again if you have!