Samuel L. Jackson, Henry Golding to Lead Thriller ‘Head Games’

Samuel L. Jackson and Henry Golding are set to lead the cast of psychological sci-fi thriller “Head Games,” to be directed by Anthony Mandler (“Surrounded,” “Monster”) from a script by Colin Liddle (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”)

Range Media Partners’ Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger will produce with Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Josh Glick and Everlast Pictures’ Adonis Tountas. A Higher Standard’s Jeffrey Greenstein, Range Media Partners’ Casey Durant, Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Zach Frognowski, and Kesh Keswani will serve as executive producers. CAA Media Finance and Range Media Partners will be co-representing US sales, with A Higher Standard handling all foreign sales. 

Due to start principal photography this October, “Head Games” follows a corporate spy who poses as a personal chef to infiltrate the villa of a former founder of a neuroprosthetics firm in order to steal his seismic-shifting new invention. As per the description, “Nothing is as it seems as the mind games begin.”

“’Head Games’ is the right mix of everything A Higher Standard advocates for — a high-quality, talent driven film that truly stands out as exceptional. Samuel (Graham) is so believably and deceptively brilliant, making the pairing of him with Henry (Jacob), who possesses the effortless charm to induce his way into Graham’s inner circle, an incredible canvass for Anthony to adeptly carry audiences on an intensely suspenseful ride,” said Greenstein, the former head of Millennium Media who left the company to set up A Higher Standard earlier this year.

“I couldn’t be more excited to bring this brilliant script to life. ‘Head Games’ is a propulsive story that pushes the boundaries of what we know as reality and what could ultimately become fiction before our eyes. The buildup and ultimate unraveling of these characters is both a metaphor for our culture today as well as a foreshadowing to what’s to come.”

Golding, currently seen in Guy Ritchie’s “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” is repped by CAA, Megan Silverman Management, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Jackson, whose upcoming projects include Netflix’s “The Piano Lesson” and Peacock’s “Fight Night” is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein and ID. Mandler is repped by Verve. Liddle is repped by Grandview.