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Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis to Star in ‘The Trip’ Thriller
Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis to Star in ‘The Trip’ Thriller-July 2024
Jul 16, 2026 10:13 PM

Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis are toplining The Trip thriller for director Jorma Taccone.

The 87North and XYZ Films project also stars Paul Guilfoyle and Keith Jardine and has started production in Finland. The Trip sees Segel and Weaving play adysfunctional couple who travel to a remote cabin to reconnect but secretly plan to kill each other.

Taccone is part ofthesketch comedy groupTheLonely Island along with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. He co-wrote and directedtheSaturday Night Live spinoff filmMacGruber, and with Schaffer directedthemusical comedyPopstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which he also co-wrote and co-starred in with Schaffer and Samberg. Segels credits include the Apple TV+ comedy Shrinking and the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. Weaving is best known for her starring role in the thrillerReady or Not, and also has credits for The Valet,Scream VI,Nine Perfect Strangers,Chevalier, Borderline and Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri.

Olyphant starred as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in FXs Justified and Justified: City Primeval and also recently appeared in the TV series Full Circle and Daisy Jones. He will next be seen in Alien: Earth for FX and the Netflix action thrillerHavoc.Lewis starred in Yellowjackets and Welcome to Chippendales,in addition to iconic roles inNatural Born Killersand Martin ScorsesesCape Fear, for which she received an Oscar nomination.

Guilfoyle is best known for his role inL.A. Confidentialas Mickey Cohen, and Jardine has appeared in Paul Thomas AndersonsInherentViceand Ric Roman WaughsShot Caller.

XYZ is financing The Trip and producing alongside 87Norths Kelly McCormick, Lee Kim and Guy Danella. Taccone and Tommy Wirkola are executive producing, with Karen Gillan co-producing.

The script for The Trip was adapted by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney from Wirkolas Norwegian thriller,I Onde Dager, which starred Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie and was written by Wirkola, John Niven and Nick Ball.

I Onde Dagerwas produced by Jrgen Storm Rosenberg and Kjetil Omberg for 74 Entertainment and was financed by XYZ along withIPR.VC. Rosenberg and Omberg are also executive producingThe Trip.

I cant wait to see Jorma bring his totally singular sensibility to the material. That, combined with this killer cast, makes me beyond excited that this film will truly stand out in the cinematic landscape, Wirkola said Tuesday in a statement.

Segel is repped by UTA and Ocean Avenue, Weaving is repped by CAA and 111 Media. Olyphant is repped by UTA.

Lewis is repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment and The Oriel Company. Guilfoyle is repped by Innovative Artists and Authentic Talent and Literary Management. Taccone is repped by UTA.

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