Blake Lively on to Star in Lionsgate Action Rom-Com ‘The Survival List’
Marc Platt is producing the new movie, which features a script from writer Tom Melia about a reality show producer forced to survive a desert island.
Blake Lively attends the "It Ends With Us" UK Gala Screening at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on August 08, 2024 in London, England. Photo: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Sony Pictures.
Preview:
- Blake Lively will star in and produce ‘The Survival List’.
- Tom Melia wrote the action rom-com.
- Marc Platt is shepherding the movie for Lionsgate.
Blake Lively these days might be best known for her legal wrangling, but she’s making sure that her movie career doesn’t lose focus.
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that she’s teaming back up with Lionsgate, which backed her most recent film, ‘Another Simple Favor’, for a new high-concept comedy called ‘The Survival List’.
Another Simple Favor
Described as an “action romantic comedy”, the new movie started life as a spec script by writer Tom Melia, who worked on successful British comedy drama ‘Rye Lane’.
And while Lively will be a producer on the movie, the real powerhouse shepherd behind the scenes will be Marc Platt, who helped bring ‘Wicked’ to screens last year.
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What’s the story of ‘The Survival List’?
Melia’s script follows a highbrow reality TV producer named Annie (Lively) who, against her wishes, is assigned to a new show hosted by a famous survival expert, Chopper Lane (shades of Bear Grylls there).
When a shipwreck strands them on a deserted island, Annie discovers Chopper is a fraud and knows nothing about survival, leaving her in charge of figuring out how to keep them alive.
Forced to work together, they begin to discover an unlikely chemistry.
Where else can we see Blake Lively?
Blake Lively stars as 'Emily' in 'Another Simple Favor'. Credit: Lorenzo Sisti. Copyright: © 2025 Amazon Content Services LLC.
Last seen in the aforementioned ‘Another Simple Favor’, Lively has a few projects in development, including an adaptation of Liane Moriarty novel ‘The Husband’s Secret’.
There’s also sci-fi thriller ‘Proxy’, about a woman miraculously reawakens after a medical trauma to discover her consciousness has been embedded into a bio-synthetic body.
And she’s been planning to make her directorial debut –– focusing on an adaptation of ‘Scott Pilgrim’ graphic novelist Bryan Lee O’Malley’s ‘Seconds’.
When will ‘The Survival List’ be on screens?
With no director attached and the film still hacking its way through the development jungle, Lionsgate isn’t yet planting a flag for the movie.
Selected Movies and TV Series Featuring Blake Lively:
- 'The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants' (2005)
- 'Accepted' (2006)
- 'Elvis and Anabelle' (2007)
- 'Gossip Girl' (2007)
- 'The Town' (2010)
- 'Green Lantern' (2011)
- 'Savages' (2012)
- 'The Age of Adaline' (2015)
- 'The Shallows' (2016)
- 'A Simple Favor' (2018)
- 'The Rhythm Section' (2020)
- 'It Ends with Us' (2024)
- 'Another Simple Favor' (2025)
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