Blink of an Eye: Christopher Landon Reunites With Drop Writers for a Netflix Thriller You Won’t See Coming

Christopher Landon has had a busy, weird run lately: he parachuted out of Scream 7, delivered a slick little thriller with Drop, lined up a werewolf movie, and now he is teaming back up with his Drop writers on a new Netflix project. Here is where it all lands.

Blink of an Eye heads to Netflix

Netflix has picked up Blink of an Eye, a thriller Landon will direct from a script by Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach. Plot details are locked down for now, but Deadline reports the story itself originated with Landon before Jacobs and Roach spun it into a screenplay.

Landon is also producing, alongside Brad Fuller, Cameron Fuller, and Michael Bay through Platinum Dunes. Interesting little inside-baseball wrinkle: unlike Drop, Blumhouse is not involved this time. So it is Landon plus the Platinum Dunes folks, without Blumhouse in the mix.

How we got here

Landon was originally steering Scream 7 until that production got turbulent enough that he walked. Kevin Williamson has since stepped in on that one. In the meantime, Landon has been stacking other genre plays: he is attached to the werewolf thriller Big Bad (still waiting to see when that one actually shoots), and earlier this year he delivered Drop for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes — the same duo of companies that previously teamed on the Purge franchise.

Quick refresher: what was Drop?

Drop hit theaters in April. It did not light up the box office, but it went over well with a lot of viewers — JoBlo critic Chris Bumbray gave it an 8/10 — and it is a tight, propulsive little thriller. The hook: Violet, a widowed mom dipping a toe back into dating, meets Henry, a charming photographer. Mid-date, her phone starts receiving anonymous "drops": videos of a masked intruder inside her home, plus a string of commands with a nasty catch — if she disobeys, her loved ones die. The final order is the kicker: kill Henry.

The cast includes Meghann Fahy as Violet, with Violett Beane, Brandon Sklenar, Jeffery Self, Gabrielle Ryan, and newcomer Jacob Robinson, who already pulls big numbers on a parent-run TikTok account.

The team behind Blink of an Eye

Jacobs and Roach are a familiar fit with Landon. In addition to Drop, they previously wrote for Blumhouse on Truth or Dare and Fantasy Island, and they worked on a not-made Magic 8 Ball movie. Landon, for his part, has already played in the Netflix sandbox with the 2023 supernatural comedy We Have a Ghost. So this reunion on Blink of an Eye feels like everyone returning to a groove that worked — just with a slightly different set of producing partners.

Bottom line: no plot specifics yet, but a Landon/Jacobs/Roach thriller at Netflix, powered by Platinum Dunes, sounds like a clean next step after Drop. Now let Big Bad get its full moon and we will really be cooking.