Freya Allan is already on set. The Witcher star is leading System, a sci-fi horror film from Joachim Rønning that is in production in London, and no plot details have been released.
Variety reported the casting on Friday. Denzel Baidoo of Last Swim and Felix Edwards of MobLand star alongside her.
Rønning Co-Wrote It With His Brother
Rønning wrote the script with his brother, Andreas Rønning, and produces through his banner The Saga Company with Roy Lee and Steven Schneider for Spooky Pictures. Image Nation Studios chief executive Ben Ross and Spooky Pictures’ Rami Yasin are executive producing.
His feature credits run through Kon-Tiki, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Young Woman and the Sea and last year’s Tron: Ares, and none of them is horror.
Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Have Worked Together Before
Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios are producing together again here. The two companies are behind V/H/S: SCP, the found-footage entry A24 boarded in September. Lee and Schneider founded Spooky Pictures together, and Lee’s producing credits include The Ring, The Grudge and It.
Freya Allan Has Been in Horror Before
Allan played Ciri in Netflix’s The Witcher and Mae in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Her previous trip through the genre was Baghead, the Alberto Corredor feature she signed on to in 2021 and that opened in U.S. theaters in January 2024.
Rønning’s last film, Tron: Ares, reached theaters in 2025, and System does not have a release date yet.