Netflix Acquires Joe Penna’s Sci-Fi Thriller “Stowaway” Starring Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette, Daniel Dae Kim and Shamier Anderson

Joe Penna’s Sci-Fi Thriller “Stowaway” Starring Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette, Daniel Dae Kim and Shamier Anderson.

On a mission headed to Mars, an unintended stowaway (Anderson) accidentally causes severe damage to the spaceship’s life support systems. Facing dwindling resources and a potentially grim outcome, a medical researcher (Kendrick) emerges as the only dissenting voice against the clinical logic of both her commander (Collette) and the ship’s biologist (Kim).

Cast: Academy Award nominee Anna Kendrick (A Simple Favor, Pitch Perfect), Academy Award nominee Toni Collette (Velvet Buzzsaw, Hereditary), Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-O, Lost, Always Be My Maybe), and Shamier Anderson (Race, Destroyer).

Director: Joe Penna

Writers: Joe Penna and Ryan Morrison

Stowaway is the second feature from Penna and Morrison, the duo behind the Cannes Official Selection Arctic

Producers: Aram Tertzakian, Nick Spicer, Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo and Ulrich Schwarz

Executive Producers: Maxime Cottray, Nate Bolotin, Ryan Morrison and Philipp Stendebach

Production Companies: XYZ Films, augenschein Filmproduktion, RISE PICTURES, and RainMaker Films

The film was shot entirely in Germany at Bavaria Studios in Munich and at MMC Studios in Cologne, with VFX handled by RISE | Visual Effects Studios.