A couple spends a weekend at their marriage counselor’s house trying to put the marriage back together, and the counselor’s methods get crueler as the weekend goes on. That is the setup for Cupid, with Catherine Zeta-Jones as the counselor, and Deadline reports that Daisy Ridley and Darren Criss are the couple, with Judy Greer and Travis Fimmel also joining the cast.
Tate Taylor is directing from a script by Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke, who wrote Don’t Worry Darling. Cameras are already rolling in Natchez, Mississippi. John Norris, Taylor and Ryan Donnell Smith are producing, and Upgrade is handling international sales after launching the film at the European Film Market in February.
Zeta-Jones Has Done This Before
Zeta-Jones played Theo in the 1999 remake of The Haunting, and she has spent the last few years as Morticia Addams on Wednesday. Taylor has been here before too. He made Ma in 2019, where Octavia Spencer’s spare room turned into a trap for a group of teenagers. Cupid moves the same idea into a marriage, which is a sharper place to put it.
Judy Greer and Daisy Ridley Both Come From Horror
Greer played Karen Nelson across all three films in David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy. Her role in Cupid has not been announced, and neither has Fimmel’s.
Ridley led the zombie thriller We Bury the Dead, which reached theaters in January, and she is also attached to the pregnancy horror film Get Rid of It.
Tate Taylor on the Counselor
“You may never want to seek counselling again,” Taylor said when the film was announced in February. On the evidence of Ma, he means it.