Overview
- Netflix acquired Play Dead on Monday in a deal with undisclosed terms and no release date announced.
- The World War II survival thriller follows a shell-shocked soldier who stays alive by feigning death near Nazi troops, with Noah Jupe and Matthias Schweighöfer starring.
- Jaume Collet-Serra directs from a script by Natalie Conway and Peter Stanley-Ward, with Sam Raimi’s Ghost House producing alongside BoulderLight, Bad Grey, and Nocturnal, which fully financed its first feature.
- WME Independent handled sales, and coverage frames the tone as Don’t Breathe meets 1917 to blend tight survival suspense with large-scale war drama.
- The move aligns with Collet-Serra’s multi-year deal at Netflix, following Carry-On ranking as the streamer’s third-most-popular film.