Emmy Nominee Sarah Snook is set to star in director Daina Reid’s Run Rabbit Run which commences pre-production this month and shoots in Victoria and South Australia. Snook will replace Elisabeth Moss who was previously announced. In the film, Snook plays a fertility doctor who believes firmly in life and death, but after noticing the strange behavior of her young daughter, must challenge her own values and confront a ghost from her past.
Acclaimed novelist Hannah Kent wrote the script from an original idea developed with Carver Films, with Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver Films (Relic, Partisan, Snowtoown) to produce, with XYZ Films executive producing, along with 30West and executive producers Deanne Weir and Olivia Humphrey. XYZ Films is financing via its production fund backed by IPR.VC, in conjunction with Screen Australia, with XYZ also handling worldwide sales. Umbrella Entertainment is managing Australia/NZ distribution. Kent’s debut novel ‘Burial Rites’ was translated into over 30 languages, won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and is currently being adapted for film by Sony TriStar.
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Run Rabbit Run is a Carver Films production, with major production investment from XYZ and Screen Australia, in association with Film Victoria, the South Australian Film Corporation, the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund and Soundfirm. XYZ’s recent slate of sales titles include the completed Stowaway starring Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette, which was released as a Netflix Original in April. Other titles include Netflix original The Trip starring Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie, God is a Bullet starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maika Monroe and Jamie Foxx, current production Nocebo with Eva Green and Mark Strong, Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland, starring Nicolas Cage and Sofia Boutella, which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and SXSW horror-thriller GAIA, which was recently acquired by Decal. XYZ is also in post-production on Dual starring Karen Gillan, Aaron Paul and Beulah Koale.
Until we feast our eyes on Run Rabbit Run, do yourself a solid, and tune in to stream Succession on HBO Max. The world is obsessed with the Roy clan. When asked to explain why we love such an unlovable bunch, Snook replies, “Because they’re a dysfunctional family! And we all know dysfunctional families. We all have people like that in our family, or we know of somebody like that. There’s also a deliciousness of watching people who have money, who seem to have it all, who seem to have everything, not be able to get through life as easily as you would otherwise imagine money affords you. Money doesn’t make you happy. And the Roys are proof of that.”
