Sebastian Stan and Lily James to Reunite for Psychological Thriller ‘Let the Evil Go West’

Star Thrower Entertainment, Gramercy Park Media and north.five.six. announced today that Emmy-nominated Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy, Fresh, Avengers franchise) and Lily James (Cinderella, Pam & Tommy, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Baby Driver) will reunite to star in psychological horror thriller Let the Evil Go West with Christian Tafdrup (Speak No Evil) set to direct. Xc Vs has penned the screenplay.

The film is produced by Tim and Trevor White (King Richard, The Post, Fair Play) under their Star Thrower Entertainment banner, Mark Fasano and Nathan Klingher for Gramercy Park Media which is also financing the film, and Allan Mandelbaum. Stan and James will also executive produce along with Gramercy Park’s Joshua Harris and Ford Corbett and north.five.six.’s Michael Rothstein and Samuel Hall. north.five.six. represents the international rights and will introduce the project to international buyers in Cannes, while CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group arranged the financing and will handle the domestic sale.

Let the Evil Go West follows a railroad worker who stumbles upon a fortune under deeply disturbing circumstances.  As horrifying visions and manifestations drive him toward madness, his wife becomes convinced that an evil presence has attached itself to their family.

This film will reunite Stan and James who starred opposite each other in Pam & Tommy for Hulu in 2022. The duo received various award nominations for their respective roles as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. 

Stan will next star in A24’s A Different Man, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews and screened in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, where Sebastian won the Silver Bear Award for “Best Leading Performance”. The film will release theatrically in September 2024. Stan will also star as Donald Trump opposite Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn in Ali Abbassi’s The Apprentice, which will premiere in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Stan received Emmy, Golden Globe and Critics Choice nominations for Best Actor in a Limited Series for his transformative portrayal of Tommy Lee in Hulu’s Pam & Tommy. He received a Critics Choice nomination for his performance starring opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones in the Searchlight cult hit, Fresh, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Stan is best known for his role as The Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes in the Captain America and Avengers franchises, the spin-off series, Falcon & The Winter Soldier and the upcoming Thunderbolts. He has balanced his Marvel roles with nuanced performances in indie films including I, Tonya with Margot Robbie, Destroyer with Nicole Kidman, and Dumb Money with Paul Dano. 

James can next be seen in the upcoming crime comedy film Greedy People for Lionsgate, which will also star Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is set to premiere this May, as well as in an upcoming film inspired by the Bumble founder for 20th Century Studios and Ethea Entertainment, which is set to begin shooting later this year. Also on the horizon for James is Relay directed by David Mackenzie, also starring Riz Ahmed. She can most recently be seen in Finalmente l’alba (Finally Dawn), an Italian drama, written and directed by Saverio Costanzo, that stars Joe Kerry and Willem Defoe and in the wrestling drama The Iron Claw for A24 with Zac Efron. She is otherwise best known for her starring roles in What’s Love Got to Do With It?, Rebecca, Yesterday, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Darkest Hour, Baby Driver and Cinderella. It’s also been announced that she will star in Philip Noyce’s Cowboy Bob as Peggy Jo, a real-life bank robber who committed her heists while dressed as a man, as well as The Paris Trap, a thriller that Pablo Trapero will direct for Studiocanal.

Tafdrup is known for directing the Danish psychological thriller Speak No Evil, which premiered at Sundance and which the 2024 Universal Pictures film, by the same name, is based on. He will executive produce this US remake. Tafdrup is also known as an actor for his roles in various Danish productions including After the Wedding, “Borgen,” and I’ll Come Running, as well as Parents and A Horrible Woman which he wrote and directed. 

Star Thrower is currently in production on David Freyne’s Eternity with A24 starring Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen and Callum Turner and Chad Hartigan’s The Threesome starring Zoey Deutch, Jonah-Hauer King and Ruby Cruz.  

Stan is represented by CAA, Brookside Management, Sloane Offer Weber and Relevant. James is repped by Tavistock Wood Management, David Weber and Shelby Weiser. Tafdrup is represented by WME, and Xc Vs by CAA, Kaplan Perone, and Lev Ginsburg.