Emile Hirsch To Star In Psychological Thriller ‘Past Life’ From Grimmfest’s Simeon Halligan — AFM
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Emile Hirsch is set to star in Past Life, a psychological thriller scheduled to start shooting in March 2023.
LA-based company Disrupting Influence will launch worldwide sales next month at AFM. Simeon Halligan, head of Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, will direct the pic.
Halligan’s previous feature directing credits includes White Settlers (2014). Written by Dean Lines and Ray Bogdanovich (Hounded, The Banishing), Past Life follows Jason Frey, an investigative reporter who reluctantly agrees to attend a hypnotism event with his pregnant wife Claira.
Under hypnosis, Jason witnesses a murder through the eyes of a killer. Haunted by what he has seen, Jason uses past live regression techniques to investigate a series of unsolved murders from the eighties while unwittingly reawakening a psychopath’s killer tendencies.
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