Lil Rel Howery To Topline Hulu Sci-Fi Thriller ‘The Mill’; Scoot McNairy, Pat Healy Among Others Set – First Look
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Lil Rel Howery (Get Out) will produce and topline The Mill — a majority solo performance sci-fi-thriller from 20th Digital Studio, Hulu Originals and Altar Rock Pictures, which will debut exclusively on Hulu in the U.S.
and Disney+ internationally later this year. The recently-wrapped, New Jersey-shot feature brings the in-demand actor back to Hulu following his successful collaboration with its Originals division and 20th Century Studios on the hit comedy Vacation Friends — also starring John Cena, Yvonne Orji and Meredith Hagner — which is soon to be followed up by the anticipated sequel, Honeymoon Friends.
Written by Jeffrey David Thomas (All American: Homecoming, Titans) and directed by Sean King O’Grady (We Need to Do Something), The Mill has Howery playing a white-collar businessman who mysteriously wakes up in an open-air prison cell containing only an old grist mill.
Forced to work as a beast of burden to stay alive, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child. Pic is one of a number of horrors produced for Hulu by the genre-focused 20th Digital, joining a slate that includes Grimcutty, Matriarch, and the upcoming Clock and Appendage.
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