Epix & Blumhouse Casts Jolene Purdy & Midori Francis For TV Movie Thriller ‘Unseen’; Yoko Okumura To Direct
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Unseen is the next project from Epix’s and Blumhouse’s eight TV movie deal and will star Jolene Purdy (The White Lotus) and Midori Francis (The Sex Lives of College Girls).
The thriller will mark Yoko Okumura’s feature directing debut.Unseen is written by Salvatore Cardoni and Brian Rawlins. The logline: Two women form an unlikely connection when a depressed gas station clerk Sam (Purdy), receives a call from Emily (Francis), a nearly blind woman who is running from her murderous ex in the woods.
Emily must survive the ordeal with Sam being her eyes from afar using video call. Michael Patrick Lane (Dynasty) will play the ex.Executive producers are Jason Blum, Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold for Blumhouse Television, and Alexander Kruener.Purdy’s additional television credits include WandaVision, The Magicians, Orange is the New Black and Gigantic.
She is reppedby A3 Artists Agency and BMK-ENT.In addition to The Sex Lives of College Girls, Francis has appeared in Dash & Lilly, The Birch, Good Boys and Ocean’s Eight.
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