{"id":889639,"date":"2026-09-12T18:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889639\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:38:21","slug":"carla-woodcock-joins-kate-beckinsale-in-shark-survival-thriller-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889639\/","title":{"rendered":"Carla Woodcock Joins Kate Beckinsale in Shark Survival Thriller White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/carla-woodcock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_carla-woodcock_1\" data-tag=\"carla-woodcock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carla Woodcock<\/a> (Starz\u2019s Outlander) has signed on to play the lead in White, the upcoming shark survival thriller from horror director Jake West (Evil Aliens), The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWoodcock will play Willa Harba, which the film\u2019s press copy describes as \u201ca struggling actress trying to catch her big break\u201d who is traveling overseas for a shoot with a self-obsessed star when their private jet crashes into the Pacific. Willa is the sole survivor, stranded on a broken wing in the middle of the ocean with only a satellite phone to link her to the outside world. But when she calls her demanding studio boss (played by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/kate-beckinsale\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kate-beckinsale_1\" data-tag=\"kate-beckinsale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Beckinsale<\/a>) for help, she brushes her off. Her signal gets picked up by a marine biologist Sam Swatek (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/katherine-mcnamara\/\" id=\"auto-tag_katherine-mcnamara_1\" data-tag=\"katherine-mcnamara\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine McNamara<\/a>), who has some bad news: Willa has crashed landed in the middle of White Shark Caf\u00e9, a stretch of ocean where great whites gather to feed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWest is directing White from a screenplay by Dan Schaffer, the writer and illustrator of the cult comic book series Dogwitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHighland Film Group, which is co-financing White and handling world sales on the title at TIFF, has pre-sold multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/international\/\" id=\"auto-tag_international_1\" data-tag=\"international\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">international<\/a> territories, including to Splendid Film in Germany, IIF in Italy, Three Lines Pictures for Benelux, Cinemundo for Portugal, Falcon Films for the Middle East, Latin America to California Filmes and Rialto Distribution for Australia \/ New Zealand, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhite is being produced by Yariv Lerner, Dominic Burns, Crawford Anderson-Dillon and Sky Morfopoulos. Kate Beckinsale is executive producing together with Highland Film Group\u2019s Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier, Patrick Wintersgill, Kevin Glynn, Pauric Duffy and Hannah Leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHighland Film Group\u2019s current slate includes\u00a0Nimr\u00f3d Antal\u2019s sci-fi action thriller Bluefly with Russell Crowe and Priyanka Chopra Jonas; Neil Burger\u2019s action thriller Barracuda starring Anthony Mackie and Dafne Keen; and Pierre Morel\u2019s action thriller The Good Samaritan starring Daisy Ridley,\u00a0Josh Duhamel and Sharlto Copley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWoodcock is repped by Sarah Camlett at Independent Talent Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carla Woodcock (Starz\u2019s Outlander) has signed on to play the lead in White, the upcoming shark survival thriller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,459335,447,134,3389,171528,181101,396986,396987,18033],"class_list":["post-889639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carla-woodcock","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-kate-beckinsale","tag-katherine-mcnamara","tag-tiff-2026","tag-toronto-2026","tag-toronto-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}