Simon Rex To Lead Thriller ‘Don’t Get Up!’ — Cannes Market 

Simon Rex (Red Rocket) has signed on to lead Don’t Get Up!, a feature thriller that Celsius Entertainment is selling at this year’s Cannes Market. 

The film is set to begin production in November and takes place during what is described in the synopsis as a “stormy night in Oklahoma.” 

The official synopsis continues: Don’t Get Up! centres on Barry (Rex), an ordinary man whose night spirals into a nightmare when he discovers the motel toilet he is sitting on has been rigged with a deadly explosive device. A mysterious caller informs Barry that he is sitting on the trigger: if he stands up, he dies. 

To survive, he must pay $220,000 before the countdown reaches zero. Cut off from the world by catastrophic flooding, with nothing but his phone and his wits, Barry is forced into a terrifying psychological battle with the unseen bombmaker who has targeted him for an unknown reason, while an FBI agent races to uncover the truth. As every desperate attempt to escape only worsens his situation, Barry realises the attack is connected to a devastating secret from his past. As the clock ticks down in real time, Barry must confront his guilt, reconnect with the family he abandoned, and somehow survive the night without ever standing up.

The film was written by The Higton Brothers and will be directed by Shaun Higton. The producers are Timur Bekmambetov, Maria Zatulovskaya, and Adam Sidman for Bazelevs, Andrew Adam Higton and Shaun Higton (Higton Brothers), and John Einar Hagen for Norsecode.