Freya Allan Stars in Horror Film "System," Shooting Now in London's Old Tunnels

Freya Allan is set to star in "System," a horror film that is being shot right now in old, abandoned underground stations and tunnels beneath London. Variety reported the casting on Friday, 13 November.

The film is the work of director Joachim Rønning, who will write, direct and produce it for The Saga Company. He wrote the screenplay with his brother, Andreas Rønning, who is also one of the executive producers, alongside Ben Ross and Rami Yasin. Those three names sit at the top of the credits, but the film has a large team behind them.

Producing duties are shared between two companies. Roy Lee and Steven Schneider are producing for Spooky Pictures. Stewart le Maréchal and Anna Mohr-Pietsch are producing for MetFilm. Two companies on one film is common when money and production work come from different places.

Denzel Baidoo and Felix Edwards have supporting roles. Their characters have not been described.

The money came together through UTA Independent Film Group, the film arm of the talent agency UTA. That group arranged the financing and is also handling the film's sale, which means it will offer the finished picture to the distributors who decide which cinemas and streaming services show it. The sale stage is where a film's path to audiences is often settled, sometimes well before it is finished.

The plot of "System" remains under wraps, so nothing is yet known about the story or the characters Allan plays. Filming in disused Underground-style tunnels is an unusual choice. Those spaces were never designed as film sets, so the crew works in narrow, old passages that have to be lit and made safe before a single shot is taken.

For now, the public picture of "System" is mostly a list of names and a location. Each name represents a set of decisions: who to hire, where to shoot, how to pay for it, and who will sell it. Those choices are what will shape the film long before audiences see a frame of it.