‘Pam & Tommy’s Sebastian Stan & Lily James To Reteam On Horror Thriller ‘Let The Evil Go West’

Following a highly successful collaboration on Hulu’s Pam & Tommy, Sebastian Stan and Lily James are set to reteam on Let the Evil Go West, a psychological horror thriller from director Christian Tafdrup (Speak No Evil).

north.five.six. reps the film’s international rights and will introduce it to buyers at 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.

Xc Vs penned the script. Tim and Trevor White (King Richard, Fair Play) are producing under their Star Thrower Entertainment banner, alongside 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.

Playing Tommy Lee to James’s Pamela Anderson in Hulu’s award winner Pam & Tommy, Stan will next be seen starring in A Different Man, which won him Berlin’s Silver Bear after world premiering to much buzz at Sundance 2024. A24 will release the pic in September. Also coming up for the actor is Ali Abbassi’s The Apprentice, an anticipated title that has him playing a young Donald Trump, which will premiere in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Most recently seen in A24’s The Iron Claw and the Italian drama Finalmente l’alba (Finally Dawn), James’s upcoming projects include the Lionsgate crime comedy Greedy People, out in May; David Mackenzie’s Relay, also starring Riz Ahmed; and an upcoming film inspired by the founder of the dating app Bumble for 20th Century Studios and Ethea Entertainment.

Tafdrup is best known for helming the Danish psychological thriller Speak No Evil, which is getting a U.S. remake, on which he’ll act as EP. As an actor, he’s known for 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.

Currently, Star Thrower is 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, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; James by Tavistock Wood Management, David Weber and Shelby Weiser; Tafdrup by WME; and Vs by CAA, Kaplan/Perrone, and Lev Ginsburg.