Succession’s Sarah Snook replaces Elisabeth Moss in horror feature Run Rabbit Run
Moss had to depart from the project due to scheduling issues
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Succession star Sarah Snook will now lead Daina Reid’s paranormal thriller flick Run Rabbit Run following the departure of Elisabeth Moss.
Snook takes over the lead role from Moss, and will now star as the mother and fertility doctor named Sarah. In Run Rabbit Run, Sarah’s firm belief in the cycle of life and death is challenged after noticing increasingly strange behavior from her young daughter.
Sarah’s discoveries force her to confront her own values and confront a ghost from her past. The film seemingly fits in with the roster of Rosemary’s Baby revival projects coming down the film and television shoots lately, as horror continues to focus on the mysteries and monstrosities of child-rearing.
Moss had to depart the project due to scheduling conflicts. Reid had previously worked with Moss as the director of Emmy-nominated episodes of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Reid’s recent projects include Apple’s The Shining Girls, HBO’s The Outsider, Amazon’s Upload, and Sunshine. Snook previously starred in the Reid-directed miniseries The Secret River. No other casting decisions have been announced.
While Snook’s known best for her Emmy-nominated performance as Siobhan Roy in the HBO drama Succession, she has recently starred in opposite Seth Rogan in An American Pickle, as well as the films Pieces Of A Woman, Predestination, Winchester, and the Aussie dark comedy Brothers’ Nest. This will be her first project following the third season of Succession, which wraps up airing mid-December.
The script for Run Rabbit Run was penned by novelist Hannah Kent (Burial Rites, The Good People) wrote the script from an original idea developed with Carver Films. Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw (Relic) are set to produce the film. Pre-production for Run Rabbit Run begins this month ahead of shoot in Victoria and South Australia.
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Going to be some great John Updike jokes and headlines about this title when reviews come out.
Yeah, I can see how Updike’s “Rabbit” series, dealing with a stereotypical white American man facing aging and his own mortality can be at times unsettling (both intentionally and unintentionally), but calling it “horror” is a bit much.
It’s only horror if Jordan Peele is his next-door neighbor.
A ‘Rabbit’ adaptation where Harry Angstrom is too self-involved to notice the fact that his neighbor is a serial killer.
I just wish the zoomers would put down their John Updike books for one damn minute and join the cultural conversation.
Golf claps all around. Came here to make this joke found I was beaten out by a bunch of better jokes.
I believe the preferred term is now “John Uplesbian”.
If this is anyone but Flanagan and Allen you’re stealing my bit!
-Updike
I predict those jokes will be more or less limited to this site, but yeah, I was about the post the same thing. Actually, my first thought was “ooo, Rabbit Run, Wait, what’s Run Rabbit Run?”
I can’t recommend Predestination enough.Imagine Tenet (at least in terms of there being time travel) but with a much better plot (since they took the original short story by Robert Heinlein and changed as little as possible) and an audible sound mix (and made for something like Tenet’s catering budget to boot).
You’re right, that movie needs a LOT more love. Snook is great in it but the movie as a whole is surprisingly good, considering the filmmakers behind it.
It’s a shame the Spierig brothers don’t seem to have done anything worthwhile since.
Not available on ANY streaming service? WTH???
Have you tried a legitimate purchase off Youtube? That’s where I got it but I’m in Australia so it could be region dependent.Let me know how that goes, if it doesn’t show up for you depending on your country, I know one other not illegal means.
The “Tenet” comparisons are idiotic. “Predestination” has a couple of excellent twists that are stretched thin by a limp screenplay. But I guess we’re all supposed to beat the same drum and pronounce how much we hate “Tenet” so let’s pretend that “Predestination” is a masterpiece.
WHAT’S THIS?! SCIENTOLOGIST CEDES, SUCCESSION’S SARAH SNOOK SUCCEEDS! STAY SEATED for SUBSEQUENT SCUTTLEBUTT!
The Kinja Caffeine Spider is Danny DeVito’s character from L.A. Confidential?
I gotta fridge full of word magnets and a lot of time to kill!
I don’t think they need to be refrigerated….
LOL, LA Confidential was actually on Showtime last night and I remember thinking “I don’t remember Frank Reynolds being in this movie!”.Terrific film, though.
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MOSS TOSSED, NO LOSS. PRODS HOOK SNOOK
Leslie Knope Headlines onetime AV Club commenter is that you?
Not familiar with that poster. Nah, this is just old-timey Variety-speak.
Kinda makes me miss ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER, though he never went in for all those big words iirc.
No, but he was one of the few people who understood that The Shield was not just wall to wall OWNAGE. No. THAT SHIT HAD MEANING, SHAWN RYAN KNEW WHAT THE FUCK HE WAS DOING.
MOSS SANUF IN SKED PUTS SNOOK AHEAD!
If Elisabeth was going to play a character named Sarah, Sarah should play a character named Elisabeth.
the less of moss, the better.
I love Elisabeth Moss, but a good many of her characters are intense people on the edge, so I’d love to see Moss in other roles, like her turn in The One I Love. I’m glad Snook is instead taking this one on.
I like Moss, but her default acting facial expression seems to be “I think I’m gonna throw up.”
The very embodiment of “jowly concern.”
Her expression is different in “Her Smell” (when her character probably should throw up to purge drugs from her system).
I thought I loved Elisabeth Moss but think I might just love Peggy Olson.
Sarah Snook as the new Elisabeth Moss? This tracks. (And without the creepy scientology angle!)
Yeah, wait’ll they dig their talons in and ruin her for the rest of us!
“The script for Run Rabbit Run was penned by novelist Hannah Kent wrote the script from an original idea”
Writing is difficult, innit?
Happy Sarah Snook dance!
She seems nice
Shiv finally gets a win!
Elizabeth Moss gets replaced in stuff is gonna be its own AVClub article one day.
The Scientologists must’ve needed Moss on one of their Sea Org ships.
This is filming in South Australia? Now I’m bummed that Moss is out. I’m a fan of her work, and I might have run into her.
Going to be hard not to typecast her or just call her Shiv Roy for the rest of her life