Deadline has revealed that Rosario Dawson is set to produce and star in Unmerciful Good Fortune, a supernatural horror based on the play by Edwin Sanchez and marking the feature directorial debut of veteran editor Tirsa Hacksaw.
The film will see Dawson as Maritza Cruz, “a high-end celebrity attorney, pulled into a headline-making case involving Fatima, a cunning young waitress who is accused of serial poisoning and murdering 28 people. Fatima’s defense takes a darkly mysterious turn when she claims to have the psychic ability to see how someone will die when she touches them and reveals she is killing people to prevent a ‘fate worse than death.'”
“Unmerciful Good Fortune is one of those truly rare projects that grabs you out of the gate and just doesn’t let go,” said Dawson. “It’s smart, scary, original and heartbreaking. From the drop, it struck me and I knew I had to come onboard to produce it as well because I simply couldn’t risk it never seeing the light of day because it—it’s not that it doesn’t fit into a box—it simply defies boxes.”
“Unmerciful Good Fortune is one of those roller coaster rides which is the reason people go to the movies,” adds Tom DeSanto (Transformers), who is producing alongside Dawson and Corey Large (It Follows). “It descends the audience into a shadowy world they have not seen before, like SE7EN. With an ending that people will be talking about for days after, that is as iconic as ‘I see dead people’ from The Sixth Sense.”
Dawson was last seen on screen in Star Wars: Ahsoka, and is currently gearing up to reprise the title role as Ahsoka Tano for the second season of Lucasfilm’s Disney+ series. She will also soon be seen in the action thriller Midnight from director Joshua Otis, where she stars alongside Alexandra Shipp, Milla Jovovich and Ryan Guzman.
