Damian Hardung and Charlotte Hope Set for Crime Thriller Human Remains

Damian Hardung and Charlotte Hope are set to star in Human Remains, a crime thriller, according to Deadline.

Hope will play Annabel, a police analyst. Hardung will play Colin. The film is based on a novel by Elizabeth Haynes, a former police intelligence analyst, and the story is inspired by real events.

William Nunez is due to direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Haynes. Douglas Wallerand Nunez of Briarstone Pictures is producing alongside Terri Dwyer and William Prince of Level Six Films.

Principal photography is scheduled to begin in February 2027 on location in Kent and around London. A start date that far ahead is normal for a film at this stage, when the cast and crew are signed before the cameras roll.

Blue Fox Entertainment is launching Human Remains for sales at the American Film Market, the trade event where distributors and buyers look at films and decide which countries and platforms to sell them to. Blue Fox is led by president Lisa Gutberlet. Deadline reported the film's sales launch alongside the casting news.

Sales launches like this one are usually the first step in a film's journey to audiences. Buyers at the market can make offers before a film is finished, and those early deals often shape where and how the film is eventually released. None of that has been set for Human Remains.

For now, the film has a cast, a writing and directing team, a production base in southern England, and a start date. The next public milestones will be the shoot itself and whatever buyers decide once Blue Fox begins its pitch.