Please Don’t Feed the Children, directed by Destry Allyn Spielberg, will star Michelle Dockery. The upscale genre feature picture will start shooting in New Mexico by the end of April. The psychological thriller, written by Paul Bertino, is produced by Jason Dubin’s Perry Street Productions, Josh Kesselman, and Michael Hagerty.

A group of orphans in Please Don’t Feed the Children travel south in quest of a new life after a viral outbreak decimates the country’s adult population, only to come into contact with a psychotic woman who is hiding a perilous secret.

Please Don’t Feed the Children, directed by Destry Allyn Spielberg, will star Michelle Dockery. The upscale genre feature picture will start shooting in New Mexico by the end of April. The psychological thriller, written by Paul Bertino, is produced by Jason Dubin’s Perry Street Productions, Josh Kesselman, and Michael Hagerty.

A group of orphans in Please Don’t Feed the Children travel south in quest of a new life after a viral outbreak decimates the country’s adult population, only to come into contact with a psychotic woman who is hiding a perilous secret.

Spielberg’s short film, Let Me Go the Right Way, received Best Thriller at the City of Angels Women’s Film Festival in 2022. She and Owen King co-wrote the screenplay, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022 with Hopper Penn and Brian D’Arcy James in the lead roles. Licorice Pizza and an episode of the miniseries I Know This Much Is True are two of her acting credits.

Spielberg expressed his gratitude for the chance to tell this narrative on screen with such a supportive and motivating crew. This movie is so much more than a straightforward horror movie. Working alongside someone with Michelle Dockery’s skills is like living out a dream.

For her work as Lady Mary on Downton Abbey and its two spinoff movies, Dockery is nominated for an Emmy. She was also nominated for an Emmy for her work on the Scott Frank-created Netflix limited series Anatomy of a Scandal. She also co-starred in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, opposite Chris Evans in Morten Tyldum’s Apple TV+ limited series Defending Jacob, and SJ Clarkson’s Netflix limited series Anatomy of a Scandal. She recently completed the six-part limited series This Town by Stephen Knight.

Spielberg is represented by WME, Sugar 23, and Gang Tyre, while Dockery is represented by Anonymous Content, Hamilton Hodell, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett.