Bailee Madison Cast as Lead in Darkly Comic Thriller 'In the Blue'

Bailee Madison has been cast as the lead in In the Blue, a darkly comic thriller, Deadline reported on 10 November 2026.

Madison will play Brie, an aspiring actor who works as a tutor. In the story, Brie is offered a large sum of money to help her student, Seth, finish his college applications during his family's holiday yacht trip. Maddox Blackwell has been cast as Seth. Adam Goldberg plays David, Seth's father, who hosts the trip.

The film is written and directed by the duo Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers. Uri Singer's Passage Pictures is producing, with Isabella Zanobini producing alongside Singer. Christa Campbell and Michael Peen are also producing with Singer, and the project is co-financed through XTA Media.

Sasha Lane, Nat Faxon, Veronica Falcón, Betsy Brandt and Fran Kranz have also been cast. Each of them joins a cast that has been built around a single, tightly contained premise: one tutoring job, one family, and one yacht.

Behind the camera, Carlos Cardona will serve as director of photography, meaning he leads the team that decides how each shot is lit and framed. Mona Mekkawi is the production designer, responsible for the sets and the overall look of the film.

Casting announcements like this one are often the first public sign that a project has moved from the page toward production. Each name on the list reflects a series of decisions by producers, financiers, directors and actors, and the film's eventual audience will only see the end of that chain.