Production has wrapped on Exit to the Guillotine, a psychological horror-thriller written and directed by Zachary Cotler, with Peyton List and Gustaf Skarsgård leading the cast, Variety reported on 5 August 2026.

The film follows Burne Peter, an off-Broadway actress played by List, who joins an international theatre troupe at a decommissioned prison on the Ukrainian coast. The troupe is led by Dado Levytskyy, a famous but unstable director played by Skarsgård, who is rehearsing a new translation of an old Polish play. Each time the company runs through the script, an actor vanishes.

The supporting cast includes Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova, Lea Myren, Dylan Douglas, Marcin Czarnik, Nikki Si'ulepa, Michael Golab, Pablo Sandstrom, and Jan Kłapyta. Producers on the project are Magdalena Zyzak, Bonnie Timmermann, Marius Vilunas, Jean Pierre Magro, and J. Todd Harris. List and Skarsgård also serve as executive producers alongside Thomas Pettinelli and Mark Jazwin — a credit that, in film-industry terms, means they have a stake in the project's business side without day-to-day production responsibilities.

Cotler wrote and directed the film through Winter Film Company, an independent production outfit he founded. His previous work spans a range of tones and subjects. His directorial debut, Maya Dardel, won best screenplay at the Prague Independent Film Festival in 2017. He followed it with When I'm a Moth (2019), described as an "un-biopic" of Hillary Rodham set in 1969 Alaska, and The Wall of Mexico (2019), about a wealthy Mexican-American family that builds a wall around their ranch.

For List, the role of Burne Peter sits alongside a career that has moved between television and film since her early teens. Skarsgård, part of the Swedish acting family that includes his brother Alexander, is widely known for his role as Floki in the historical drama series Vikings and more recently as Merlin in the Netflix series Cursed.

No release date or distribution arrangement has been announced. With production now complete, the film enters post-production — the editing, sound, and visual-effects phase that typically runs several months before a film is ready to screen for buyers or audiences.