Jaume Collett-Serra’s WWII Thriller ‘Play Dead’ For Producer Sam Raimi Heads to EFM

February 5, 2026 Bloody Disgusting

Filmmaker Jaume Collett-Serra (Carry-On, The Woman in the Yard) is set to Play Dead for producer Sam Raimi; Variety reports that the “white-knuckle” WWII thriller is now in post-production and heading to the European Film Market soon.

Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of the Dead) stars alongside Noah Jupe (The Carpenter’s Son, A Quiet Place).

Play Dead was written by Natalie Conway and Peter Stanley-Ward and follows “an Allied soldier who, after an ambush, must play dead to survive.”

It’s described as a “World War II white-knuckle thriller” and, more...