Samara Weaving & Nicholas Braun Set For Environmental Thriller ‘Hivemind’; Ciarán Foy Directing For Thunder Road, Badlands
Samara Weaving and Nicholas Braun will star in Hivemind, an environmental thriller now filming in Dublin. The film follows small-town authorities confronting a newly evolved breed of killer wasps before it causes a global outbreak, and will stream internationally on Prime Video through Amazon MGM Studios.
Irish director Ciarán Foy is directing from a screenplay by Peter Gaffney, whose spec script was acquired by Badlands last year. Thunder Road, Badlands and Wild Atlantic Pictures are producing, while Renegade Capital is backing the project; CAA Media Finance and Verve are handling domestic sales.
- Weaving and Braun lead killer-wasp thriller Hivemind.
- The film is filming in Dublin.
- Amazon MGM plans an international Prime Video release.
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Environmental thrillers use imagined environmental threats to explore how people and institutions respond to danger. In Hivemind, the threat is a new type of killer wasp, and the story centres on small-town authorities facing the risk of it spreading beyond their area.
The film stars Samara Weaving and Nicholas Braun and is directed by Irish filmmaker Ciarán Foy, from a screenplay by Peter Gaffney. Thunder Road, Badlands and Wild Atlantic Pictures are producing it, with Renegade Capital providing backing.