Fresh off his role in Alien: Romulus, Spike Fearn is joining two-time Oscar winner Renée Zellweger in the psychological thriller Phantom Son, Deadline first reported today.
Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts filmmaker David Yates is attached to direct from a screenplay by Ian Scott McCullough (“The Mosquito Coast”).
Phantom Son will follow “Ronnie, a young and struggling runaway taken in by Audrey (Zellweger), a lonely woman whose own son was kidnapped twenty years earlier. As Audrey becomes convinced that Ronnie actually is her long-lost son, a twisted game of cat and mouse develops to blur the line between deception and delusion.”
Zellweger and Carmella Casinelli developed the thriller under their Big Picture Co. label, and additional casting is underway ahead of the project’s early 2026 production start date.
