Movie Bridge Worldwide has added Sidhartha Mallya (“Mafia Wars”) to the forged of “Thrill Journey,” with manufacturing scheduled to begin within the U.Ok. in the course of the first quarter of 2025.

The thriller, helmed by Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura from a script by Chad Legislation (“Lights Out”) and Christopher Jolley (“Granny Krampus”), follows a bunch of passengers trapped the wrong way up on a curler coaster when a mysterious saboteur threatens to drop them to their deaths one after the other. Mallya steps into the function of Trey.

Throughout the American Movie Market, Movie Bridge Worldwide landed a number of distribution offers, with Volga Movies taking CIS and Benelux territories, and Falcon Movies securing the Center East. Signature acquired U.Ok. rights in the course of the Cannes Movie Market. Extra territory gross sales are pending announcement.

Mallya, who just lately appeared alongside Tom Welling and Cam Gigandet in “Mafia Wars,” is represented by Untitled Leisure and Carey Dodd Associates within the U.Ok.

Kitamura shot to prominence with “Versus” (2000), “Azumi” (2003), “Godzilla: Last Wars” (2004) and “The Midnight Meat Prepare” (2008). Current credit embrace “Three Sisters of Tenmasou” (2022) and “The Value We Pay” (2022).

Movie Bridge Worldwide’s slate consists of “Categorized” with Aaron Eckhart, the upcoming wide-release thriller “Man within the White Van,” U.Ok. manufacturing “The Dreadful” starring Package Harington and Sophie Turner, and action-thriller “Valiant One.” Movies beneath manufacturing on the firm embrace Babak Najafi’s action-thriller “The Florist,” starring Kiefer Sutherland and Jean Reno; Ned Crowley’s supernatural thriller “Killing Religion,” with Invoice Pullman, Man Pearce, and DeWanda Sensible; Roel Reine’s survival thriller “Savage Hunt”; and Martin Bonnici’s horror “Xelter.”