EXCLUSIVE: M. Night Shyamalan‘s new supernatural romantic thriller, Remain, has added award-winning actor, producer, director and recording artist Ashley Walters (Adolescence, Top Boy), Julie Hagerty (Airplane, Marriage Story), Jay O. Sanders (His Three Daughters; When You Finishing Saving the World) and Tracy Ifeachor (The Pitt) to the cast.
Hannah James (Mercy Street, The Gray House), Caleb Ruminer (The Irrational, Finding Carter), Kieran Mulcare (Aftermath, Jessica Jones) and Maria Dizzia (My Old Ass, School Spirits, Orange is the New Black) round out the cast.
The group joins previously announced Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor in a story that 2x Oscar nominee Shyamalan co-created with bestselling novelist Nicholas Sparks. Shyamalan and Sparks are independently writing a screenplay and a novel, respectively, based on the same original love story.
Both projects will be based on the same concept and set of characters, but tailored to their respective mediums.
Shyamalan and Ashwin Rajan will produce through Blinding Edge Pictures, alongside Marc Bienstock and Sparks’ longtime producing partner Theresa Park. Sparks is Executive Producer.
Shyamalan’s Blinding Edge Pictures will produce the film, which will be released theatrically by WB on Oct. 23, 2026.
Walters is repped by Independent Talent and DawBell. Hagerty is repped by Innovative Artists and Framework Entertainment. Sanders is represented by Innovative Artists Entertainment. Ifeachor is repped by The Artists Partnership, Untitled Entertainment, Vision PR, VanderKloot Law. Dizzia is repped by Gersh and Perennial Entertainment. James is repped by Innovative Artists and More Medavoy Management. Ruminer is repped by Buchwald, Venture, and Hansen Jacobsen. Mulcare is repped by Swiontek Entertainment and Peikoff Mahan.