After the success of this summer’sDeadpool and Wolverine,Dafne Keenis back in a post-apocalyptic landscape in the first look atNight Comes.Varietyhas the first image from the film, and reports that the film has wrapped shooting in Canada.
The film will center around two sisters, played by Keen andSamantha Lorraine(You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah), who survive an apocalyptic event and are tasked with a dangerous mission that could spell salvation - or disaster - for the rest of humanity. In the image, Keen and Lorraine are clad in patchwork, makeshift outfits and heavily armed as they embark on their mysterious mission. The film will also starHeels’Alexander Ludwigin an unspecified role.Night Comesis the directorial debut of actorJay Hernandez, best known for his roles inSuicide Squadand CBS' reboot ofMagnum P.I.It is currently being shopped to distributors by production companies The Exchange and Impossible Dream Entertainment at the American Film Market in Las Vegas.
Who Is Dafne Keen?
Keen made her first on-screen appearance at age ten on the BBC seriesThe Refugees, in which she starred with her father, actorWill Keen. She broke out playing youthful Wolverine clone Laura, alias X-23, in the superhero movieLogan, earning widespread acclaim for her ferocious performance. She subsequently starred as protagonist Lyra Belacqua on HBO and the BBC’s adaptation ofPhilip Pullman’sHis Dark Materialsfantasy novels; the series began in 2019 and concluded with its third and final season in 2022. She recently starred as alien Jedi Padawan Jecki Lon on the Disney+Star Warsseries,The Acolyte, and reprised her role as Laura in the box office behemothDeadpool and Wolverine- despite claiming beforehand that she had not been approached to appear in it, to avoid spoiling the film. She is next set to star in the horror filmWhistle, fromThe NundirectorCorin Hardy, as a teen who accidentally unleashes an ancient curse from an Aztec death whistle.
Night Comesis produced byShaun Redick(Get Out) andYvette Yates Redick(Day Shift), alongside Big Picture Cinema Group partnersJayce BarrieroandJacky Lai. The script was written by Hernandez,Nancy IsaakandJason Bourque.
Night Comesis now in post-production, and is being shopped at the American Film Market; it does not yet have a release date. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
