The cast is led by Abigail Cowen (Fate: The Winx Saga, The Ritual, Redeeming Love), who plays a mother on the run with her infant.
It also stars Jackie Earle Haley, who landed an Oscar nom for Little Children and starred in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen, and Lou Diamond Phillips, whose long and varied career has included starring as Ritchie Valens in La Bamba all the way up to working in this season’s cult comedy HBO series, The Chair Company.
They are joined by Jason Schmidt (The Outsiders on Broadway), Nadine Velazquez (Flight, My Name Is Earl), Jose Pablo Cantillo (Elysium, Mayor of Kingstown), Rob Morgan (Stranger Things, Mudbound), Joseph Raymond Lucero (Mayans MC) and PJ Sosko (The Blacklist).
“Desperate and on the run with her infant son, a young mother races across empty highways and forgotten truck stops, hunted by ruthless cartel enforcers and relentless federal agents,” reads the logline. “But in the shadows between predator and prey, something far more terrifying is stirring—and nothing in this story is what it seems.”
The film hails from director Don Handfield, who adapted the forthcoming AMP Comics graphic novel of the same name with writer Joshua Malkin.
Handfield, known for producing McDonald’s feature The Founder starring Michael Keaton and co-creating History’s Knightfall, said in a statement, “This is a film that weaponizes your assumptions. The less you know going in, the more devastating the experience.”
The film is produced by Lauren Vilchik through Walker Street Entertainment, Eshan Kamarsu through Tambura Pictures, Handfield through AMP Comics, and Chase McNaughton through Frigate Filmworks.
The producers tease that like recent hits such as Barbarian and Strange Darling, this feature will shift gears mid-way through in an unexpected way.
“What drew me to Widow is the character at its center,” said Vilchik. “She’s a fully dimensional woman fighting for survival, and her choices force the audience into impossible moral territory. That complexity—and ferocity—is rare.”
Added Kamarsu: “This is a film people will be talking about—and debating—long after the credits roll.”
Cowen is repped by Innovative Artists, Mosaic and Hansen Jacobson. Phillips is represented by Thruline Entertainment and Global Artists Agency. Haley is represented Leslie Allen-Rice Management Gersh. Handfield is repped by Zero Gravity.
