EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has acquired international rights from XYZ Films to thriller and Cannes sales title Over Your Dead Body (formerly The Trip) starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, and Juliette Lewis.
Jorma Taccone directed from the adapted screenplay by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney based on Tommy Wirkola’s Norwegian cult thriller I Onde Dager. Segel and Weaving play a dysfunctional couple who head to a remote cabin to reconnect, while secretly harbouring plans to kill the other. The cast includes Paul Guilfoyle and Keith Jardine.
The film will receive a wide US theatrical release through Independent Film Company, which is stepping up its commitment to bigger films, followed by the international Prime Video release.
Over Your Dead Body filmed in Tampere, Finland, and received production incentives from Business Finland, The City of Tampere, and Film Tampere. Films Films Films provided production services.
Producers are 87North’s Kelly McCormick and David Leitch, whose credits include The Fall Guy, Bullet Train, and the Nobody franchise, as well as XYZ Films’ Guy Danella, Nick Spicer, Aram Tertzakian, and Resolute Films’ Lee Kim.
Taccone, Tommy Wirkola, XYZ’s Nate Bolotin and Maxime Cottray, Timo Argillander, Andrea Scarso, Kjetil Omberg and Jorgen Storm Rosenberg are executive producers.
Bolotin negotiate the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.
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