Brian Tyree Henry In Final Negotiations To Join Sam Esmail’s ‘Panic Carefully’

Matt Grobar

12 December 2024 at 2:16 pm·2-min read

EXCLUSIVE: Brian Tyree Henry is in final negotiations to join Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Olsen, and Eddie Redmayne in Panic Carefully, writer-director Sam Esmail’s new paranoid thriller for Warner Bros.

Character details are under wraps, as is the logline. The film is said to be in the vein of Esmail’s Mr. Robot and The Silence of the Lambs and involves the hunt for a cyber terrorist.

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Warner Bros won the project in a bidding war earlier this year, in part due to its commitment to a theatrical run. Pic reunites Esmail with Roberts following Leave the World Behind, their apocalyptic thriller, which stands as Netflix’s fifth most popular English-language film of all time.

Producers include Esmail and Chad Hamilton 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, with production to launch in England in January.

Coming off Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Transformers One, Henry will next be seen starring in Rachel Morrison’s boxing drama The Fire Inside, which Amazon MGM Studios releases on Christmas Day. On March 14, he’ll be seen starring in Apple’s crime drama series Dope Thief, from executive producer Ridley Scott, opposite Wagner Moura. Other upcoming projects for the Oscar nominee include Michel Gondry’s Golden, a coming-of-age musical inspired by the childhood of Pharrell Williams, which Universal releases on May 9, the Moura-directed dramedy Last Night at the Lobster, in which he stars opposite Elisabeth Moss, and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, where he voices Jefferson Davis.

Henry is represented by CAA, JWM Entertainment Group, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

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