The First Omen Director Targets A24 Horror With Stars From Five Nights at Freddy's, Fear the Walking Dead, and Weapons
Arkasha Stevenson is assembling a killer ensemble for her next horror, as Hollywood heavyweights pile into the cast.
Arkasha Stevenson is not messing around. Fresh off turning The First Omen into a legit critical win, she’s lining up a stacked ensemble for a new A24 horror movie that doesn’t even have a title yet. The hook is simple and nasty in the best way:
"a bachelor party that spirals into terror"
That’s all anyone is saying on the story for now, but the cast is already doing a lot of the talking.
Who is in this thing
- Emma Corrin ("Deadpool & Wolverine") – confirmed
- Hunter Schafer ("Euphoria") – confirmed
- Havana Rose Liu ("Bottoms") – confirmed
- Sophie Wilde ("Talk to Me") – confirmed
- Josh Hutcherson ("Five Nights at Freddy's") – in talks, per Variety
- Frank Dillane ("Fear the Walking Dead") – in talks
- Whitmer Thomas ("Weapons") – in talks
- Caleb Landry Jones ("Get Out") – in talks
Variety says the Hutcherson/Dillane/Thomas/Landry Jones wave is circling deals now, and that update landed just a day after Corrin, Schafer, Liu, and Wilde were officially revealed. Translation: this one came together fast.
Who’s making it (and why that matters)
Stevenson is writing again with Tim Smith, the collaborator she teamed with on The First Omen. Producing are Lars Knudsen and Emily Hildner under Square Peg, the banner Knudsen runs with Ari Aster. Aster himself is on board as executive producer. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s the house of "Hereditary" and "Midsommar" shepherding the next film from the director who just put a fresh charge into the Omen franchise. Not exactly low stakes.
Quick refresher on Stevenson’s last scare
The First Omen wasn’t a nostalgia cash-in. It played like a sharp, 1970s-styled chiller with actual ideas, following Nell Tiger Free as a young American novice in Italy who stumbles into a religious conspiracy and all the nightmare fuel that entails. Critics (including us) were very into it, which is why this new project suddenly vaults near the top of the must-watch horror list.
Timing and side quests
No release date yet, and A24 hasn’t unveiled the official title. But the cast is busy: Josh Hutcherson is back next month with Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Whitmer Thomas just popped in Zach Cregger’s buzz-magnet "Weapons," and Corrin and Schafer bring the big-title heat from "Deadpool & Wolverine" and "Euphoria." Roles here are under wraps, so expect more specifics once the ink dries.
For now, it’s a lean premise, a killer roster, and the Square Peg horror braintrust behind it. If the bachelor party goes the way I think it’s going to go, nobody’s bringing home souvenir T-shirts.