Netflix’s new noir thriller Windfall gets an official release date. The popular streaming platform acquired the film in July 2021 in a massive 8-figure deal after production wrapped earlier that year. Windfall follows a wealthy couple who find a man breaking into their vacation home. It follows the “Hitchcockian” thriller genre. Charlie McDowell, son of iconic actor Malcolm McDowell, directs the film. Also, it is from a script by Justin Lader (The Discovery) and Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en).
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Windfall: Cast and Plot!
Netflix describes Windfall as “A Hitchcockian thriller following a wealthy couple who arrive at their vacation home only to find it’s being robbed.”
Jason Segel and Lily Collins will lead in Netflix’s Windfall. Segel has performed in such projects as How I Met Your Mother, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Sex Tape, and more. He is also producing this film. Windfall, a noir thriller, will be a change of genres for Segel from his many rom-com works. Lily Collins is known for her recent role as Emily in Emily in Paris (currently filming season 2) as well as her other projects such as Mank, The Mortal Instruments, Les Miserables, and more. Segel and Collins will be playing the aforementioned young couple.
They will be joined by Jesse Plemons of Breaking Bad, Fargo and Black Mirror fame and Omar Leyva (Grey’s Anatomy, Icebox, McFarland).
All signs point to the film being minimalistic. Both McDowell and Collins have called the film “out-of-the-box.”
Windfall: Release Date & Trailer!
Check out the trailer here:
As we can see from the trailer, a man breaks into a tech billionaire’s empty vacation home, but things go sideways when the arrogant mogul and his wife arrive for a last-minute getaway.
Windfall is coming to Netflix on March 18, 2022, even though Netflix did not feature Windfall in their 2022 movie preview trailer.