Destry Allyn Spielberg is making her feature directorial debut. Deadline reports that she will helm action pic “Four Assassins (And A Funeral)” for Erica Lee and Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Pictures.
With production slated for the first half of 2023, “Four Assassins” centers on “the adoptative daughter of a legendary assassin,” per The Tracking Board.
Spielberg expressed her enthusiasm for the project, saying that she is “thrilled and honored to have the privilege of working with Thunder Road to tell this story of family, deceit, and murder!”
The director previously helmed the short film “Let Me Go (The Right Way).” The psychological thriller premiered at Tribeca Film Festival this year and won the Jury Prize at City of Angels Women’s Film Festival.
“We watched Destry’s [“Let Me Go (The Right Way)”] and were impressed — and after meeting and hearing she wanted to do action, we dug in to find something,” Lee revealed. “’Four Assassins’ is the perfect vehicle for her, and we’re excited what her unique voice will bring to it – and introducing a new filmmaker voice into the elevated action space.“
Also an actress, Spielberg last appeared in “Licorice Pizza.”