/News 24.02.22

GOLDEN GLOBE® AWARDED SARAH SNOOK TO FILM DAINA REID THRILLER RUN RABBIT RUN IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Daina Reid’s (The Handmaid’s Tale) horror/thriller Run Rabbit Run starring Golden Globe® Award-winner Sarah Snook (Succession) will film partly in South Australia, with the production announcing the casting of AACTA Award winner Damon Herriman, Emmy® and SAG-nominated Greta Scacchi and newcomer Lily LaTorre.

Snook plays a fertility doctor whose firm grasp on the cycle of life is put to the test as her young daughter begins to exhibit increasingly strange behaviour. The production will shoot at locations in both Victoria and South Australia.

The script was written by acclaimed South Australian novelist Hannah Kent (Devotion, Burial Rites) from an original idea developed with Carver Films, with Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver Films (Relic, Partisan, Snowtown) producing.

Los Angeles-based XYZ Films is executive producing, financing and handling world sales. Storyd Group’s Deanne Weir and Olivia Humphrey, and Filmology’s Jack Christian and D.J. McPherson are also executive-producing.

The cast also includes Trevor Jamieson(Storm Boy, Bran Nue Dae), Neil Melville (Five Bedrooms, Brilliant Lies), Naomi Rukavina (Pawno, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Georgina Naidu(SeaChange, Newton’s Law), Genevieve Morris (Bloom, No Activity), Katherine Slattery(Balibo, The Secret Life of Us) and newcomer Sunny Whelan.

Featured Image: Damon Herriman, Sarah Snook (photo by Alex Vaughn) and Greta Scaachi