Jason Segel, Lily Collins, and Jesse Plemons thriller acquired by Netflix
The movie is about a couple who realizes their vacation home is being robbed
According to Deadline, Jason Segel, Lily Collins, and Jesse Plemons are starring in Windfall, a “Hitchcockian thriller” and a “modern-day noir” directed by The One I Love and The Discovery director Charlie McDowell and has just been acquired by Netflix. Deadline says the movie (which wrapped production earlier this year and was developed by McDowell and Segel) is about a young couple who arrive at a vacation home just as its being robbed. If we had to guess, we’d say Segel and Collins are playing the couple and Plemons is playing the robber, if only because “you think you’re doing one thing but then Jesse Plemons is there unexpectedly” would be one good explanation for how he manages to be in every single movie these days. This was just going to be a regular movie about a couple on vacation, but then Jesse Plemons was already there, so they found a way to work him into the script. The trick is that he’s good, so nobody’s going to object to him just showing up on every set and pretending that he’s supposed to be there.