Actor Sophie Thatcher, known for her roles in Heretic, Companion and Yellowjackets, will star in her next feature directed by Jennifer Kent.
Titled The Girl Who Plugged In, Kent has also written the screenplay adapted from the 1973 sci-fi novella by American writer Alice B Sheldon, who went by the pen name James Tiptree Jr. The dystopian novella is about a woman who, to be loved, loses her soul to technology.
Thatcher is set to play a disfigured, suicidal young protagonist, P Burke, hired by a mega tech corporation to virtually operate lab-grown Delphi, a flesh body. Enthralled by Delphi's popularity, P Burke's admiration descends into a tech psychosis with disastrous consequences.
Kent, Cody Greenwood, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Brandon Millan, Sam Wasson, and Fred Berger are producing The Girl Who Was Plugged In. The film is set to go on floors in mid-November 2026 in Australia. Last seen in Companion, Thatcher will also be seen in Her Private Hell and Peaches.
