24th March, Mumbai: Please Don’t Feed the Children, Destry Allyn Spielberg’s first film as a director, will star Michelle Dockery. Late April will see the start of New Mexico’s production of the enhanced genre flick. Produced by Jason Dubin’s Perry Street Productions, Josh Kesselman, and Michael Hagerty, the psychological thriller with a script by Paul Bertino was written.
In Please Don’t Feed the Children, a group of orphans travel south in quest of a new life after a viral outbreak decimates the adult population of the nation, only to find themselves at the mercy of a mentally unstable woman who is hiding a perilous secret.
Spielberg, the director of The Fabelmans’s Daughter, would work on this movie before Four Assassins (and a Funeral), which was supposed to be her feature debut . The latter, a Ryan Hooper story that reached the 2021 Black List and been compared to Kingsman, Knives Out, and Succession, will take a little longer to develop, but Thunder Road Films, run by Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, is still developing it. The image will merely move back as the other was about to move.
Let Me Go the Right Way, Spielberg’s short film, received Best Thriller at the City of Angels Women’s Film Festival in 2022. Sean Penn and Brian D’Arcy James starred in the film that she co-wrote with Owen King, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.
Licorice Pizza and an episode of the miniseries I Know This Much Is True are two of her acting credits.
Spielberg expressed his gratitude for the chance to tell this narrative on screen with such a supportive and motivating crew. The movie is so much more than a generic horror movie. Working alongside someone with Michelle Dockery’s skill is like living out a dream. With our amazing cast and team, I can’t wait to elevate the genre.
Dockery was up for an Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Mary in the two Downton Abbey spinoff movies. She was also nominated for an Emmy for the Scott Frank-produced limited series Godless, co-starred in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, and starred opposite Chris Evans in the limited series Defending Jacob on Apple TV+ and the limited Netflix series Anatomy of a Scandal, both of which were directed by SJ Clarkson. Her work on the six-part limited series This Town by Stephen Knight just ended.
Spielberg is represented by WME, Sugar 23, Gang Tyre, Anonymous Content, Hamilton Hodell, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett. Dockery is also represented by these agencies.