WandaVision and MCU veteran Elizabeth Olsen is joining Julia Roberts in Warner Bros‘ upcoming thriller feature Panic Carefully. The movie is described as a paranoid thriller reminiscent of Silence of the Lambs. The film’s logline is currently under wraps however, so we don’t know much more than that.

Sam Esmail, best known for creating the Emmy-winning series Mr. Robot, is set to direct from a script he wrote, with Warner Bros. landing the package earlier this year following an intense bidding war. His most recent feature was the 2023 Netflix thriller Leave the World Behind, in which Roberts also starred opposite Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke.

Esmail produces with Chad Hamilton for Email Corp., alongside Roberts, Scott Stuber, Marisa Yeres Gill and Lisa Gillan. Kevin McCormick and Chrystal Li will also produce.

Olsen starred earlier this year in the Netflix drama His Three Daughters, and plays the lead role in the sci-fi thriller The Assessment. Other upcoming projects for the actress include the A24 sci-fi project Eternity, which also stars Miles Teller, Callum Turner, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, as well as the Highlands-based series Once There Were Wolves.

Production on Panic Carefully is expected to begin in January 2025, with a cinema release date to be announced.

News of casting Panic Carefully first broke courtesy of Deadline.