Overview
- Deadline, which reported the casting Tuesday, said Lili Reinhart will star opposite previously announced Melissa Leo in writer-director Sean Byrne’s The Mannequin.
- The film is framed as a mostly two-hander serial‑killer procedural that Byrne calls twisted, intense, and propulsive, and he praised the Reinhart–Leo pairing as fearless.
- Production is slated to begin this summer, with key plot details under wraps as Byrne promises a performance-led story that builds to a shocking twist.
- Studiocanal is handling worldwide sales at the Cannes market and will release the film in the UK, France, Germany, Benelux, Poland, Australia, and New Zealand, while Elevation Pictures has Canada.
- Producers are William Woods and Maddy Falle for Page 12 Pictures and Kristian Moliere for Triptych Pictures, with executive producers including Steven Schneider, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Charlie Kemball, Jed Benedict, Lili Reinhart, Catherine Hagedorn, and Melissa Leo, and Head Gear Films packaging with Room 101.