Sarah Michelle Gellar & Rudy Pankow To Play Grim Reaper & The Devil In Mali Elfman Film ‘Thud’; Divide/Conquer & Radio…

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come) and Rudy Pankow (Outer Banks) have inked deals to star in Thud, a supernatural romance from director Mali Elfman (Next Exit), where they’ll respectively play the juicy roles of the Grim Reaper and the Devil.

Based on an original screenplay by Noga Pnueli (Meet Cute), Thud watches as the Grim Reaper and the Devil meet cute at a three-day destination wedding, falling in love after colliding at the event, where they’ve each come to sow their own chaos.

Set to shoot in Los Angeles with a California tax credit, the film will be produced by Derek Bishé and David Grove Churchill Viste. Exec producers include Helmstreet Productions’ Lindsay Helms and Joel Nevells, Divide/Conquer‘s Greg Gilreath and Adam Hendricks, Radio Silence‘s Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Dan Lawler and Pnueli. Lisa Zagoria (Brothers, The Present) is the project’s casting director.

Sarah Michelle Gellar reunites here with Radio Silence after starring in their Searchlight horror comedy sequel Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. Other recent projects include Showtime’s Dexter: Original Sin and a cameo in Sony’s reboot of her I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise. Next up, she has the Tubi animated series Breaking Bear, where she voices the character Blair, the middle and “brainy” sister of a dysfunctional bear family alongside Brendan Fraser, Josh Gad and Annie Murphy. She is repped by CAA, Linden Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

Best known for starring in Netflix’s Outer Banks, Pankow is coming off of Universal’s Colleen Hoover adaptation Reminders of Him, where he starred alongside Tyriq Withers and Maika Monroe. He just wrapped a role opposite Ben Foster in the modern Western Cowboy from Cameron Duddy and will next be seen in Hulu’s comedy Never Change!, which is coming off its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival. He is repped by CAA, Jackson Entertainment Management and Matthew Saver Law Offices.

Elfman’s feature directorial debut was the genre-bender Next Exit, which premiered at Tribeca and was released in theaters by Magnolia Pictures. Most recently, she wrote and directed The Scariest Skeleton for the animated horror anthology Dark Corners, where she worked alongside Stephen King, Paul Tremblay and Kate Siegel. As a producer, her credits include Karen Gillan’s The Party’s Just Beginning, Mike Flanagan’s Before I Wake and Birth/Rebirth. She is repped by Peter Van Steemburg.

Twice featured on The Black List, for scripts Meet Cute and High Society, Pnueli sold the latter to Peacock for U.S. distribution. Alex Lehmann directed the darkly comedic rom-com, starring Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson. Pneuli is developing High Society with Legitimate Pictures and is repped by Untitled and Jennifer Gray at Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.

Radio Silence is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.