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The new project was shot on location in London and benefited from the British government’s Film and TV Production Restart Scheme. The story, penned by
Simon Allen (the TV series The Watch and
The Musketeers), centres on a broke college dropout (played by Evans) who, in pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced with dangerous choices and reality-warping challenges. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she realises she’s no longer playing for the money, but for her life. The game locks her into an inescapable cycle of mind-bending horror. The cast is rounded off by actors