Jorma Taccone’s remake of the Norwegian film The Trip sends a married couple to a lakeside cabin, each secretly planning to kill the other, and then lets three escaped fugitives crash the weekend.

A marriage that has run out of road, a cabin by a lake and two spouses who have each decided, separately, that the weekend will end with the other one dead: that is the premise of Over Your Dead Body, the 2026 dark comedy directed by Jorma Taccone. Samara Weaving and Jason Segel play the couple, and the twist that turns the story inside out arrives when the cabin turns out not to be empty. Three fugitives have been hiding in the attic, and the two would-be killers suddenly need each other alive.

The film is an American action comedy thriller written by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, an English-language remake of the 2021 Norwegian film The Trip, and it runs 107 minutes. Alongside Weaving and Segel, the cast includes Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Keith Jardine and Paul Guilfoyle, with a production pedigree that points squarely at action: 87North, the company of David Leitch and Kelly McCormick behind Nobody and Bullet Train, produced it with XYZ Films.

Two murder plans, one weekend

Jason Segel plays Dan Burton, a director whose only feature film lies years behind him and who now pays the bills shooting pop-up ads. He is unhappily married to Lisa, an aspiring actress played by Samara Weaving. After a visit to his father Michael, played by Paul Guilfoyle, at a nursing home, Dan drives Lisa out to the family’s lakeside cabin. What she does not know is that he has arranged to murder her there with the help of Henry, an ex-convict acquaintance played by Jake Curran, who has been promised half of her life insurance.

What Dan does not know is that Lisa has a plan of her own: a staged hunting accident with one of his father’s guns. Both schemes collide within the first hours at the cabin, and the confrontation drags the couple’s grievances into the open, from Dan’s money troubles to Lisa’s infidelity. The question of who is worth more dead turns into an argument about insurance policies, and Henry, who expected an easy payday, finds himself in the middle of a marriage he no longer understands.

The real problem is upstairs. Pete, played by Timothy Olyphant, and Todd, played by former mixed martial arts fighter Keith Jardine, are convicted killers who have broken out of prison together with Allegra, an unstable corrections officer, played by Juliette Lewis, who is in love with Pete. On the run, the three had slipped into the cabin and hidden in the attic when the couple arrived. Once they come crashing down, they tie Dan and Lisa up in the basement and demand money, and two people who had been plotting each other’s deaths have to start working as a team. The film also finds room for cameos by Andy Cohen and Kumail Nanjiani, both playing themselves.

Samara Weaving and Jason Segel in Over Your Dead Body (2026) — Samara Weaving and Jason Segel in *Over Your Dead Body* (2026). 87North Productions / XYZ Films.

From Tommy Wirkola’s Norway to a Finnish lake

The source is The Trip, released in Norway as I onde dager, a title that plays on the Norwegian wedding vow about staying together in good and bad days, since the word ond can mean both bad and evil. Tommy Wirkola, the director of Dead Snow, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and Violent Night, made it from a script he wrote with Nick Ball and John Niven, casting Aksel Hennie and Noomi Rapace as Lars and Lisa. It opened in Norwegian cinemas on July 30, 2021, played Fantastic Fest that September and reached the rest of the world through Netflix on October 15, 2021.

An English-language version was already in development in April 2021, before the original had even been released at home, and at that stage Wirkola himself was attached to direct it. By November 2024 the project had changed hands: Jorma Taccone was directing from a screenplay by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, and Weaving, Segel, Olyphant, Lewis, Guilfoyle and Jardine had joined the cast. Principal photography began on November 19, 2024 in Tampere, Finland, and the remote cabin at the heart of the story was found in Siivikkala, in the municipality of Ylöjärvi.

Throughout production the film carried the original’s title, The Trip. In May 2025 it was renamed Over Your Dead Body, and its distribution was split in two: Independent Film Company, IFC, took the rights for the United States, and Prime Video acquired the rest of the world. Kelly McCormick and David Leitch produced it with Aram Tertzakian, Nick Spicer, Guy Danella and Lee Kim, and XYZ Films, the company that had also backed the Norwegian original, stayed on board for the remake.

The comedy team behind it

Jorma Taccone is one third of The Lonely Island, the comedy music group he formed with his childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. The trio joined Saturday Night Live in 2005 and went on to make more than a hundred SNL Digital Shorts. Taccone made his feature debut as director with MacGruber in 2010, a spin-off of one of those sketches, and co-directed Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping with Schaffer in 2016. Over Your Dead Body arrives a decade after Popstar and moves him from pure parody into a genre hybrid where the jokes have to share the frame with home invasion and violence.

The writers come from the same world. Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney are BriTANicK, a sketch comedy duo from Atlanta who met at New York University, built an audience with web sketches on sites such as CollegeHumor and Funny or Die, and were hired as writers on Saturday Night Live in 2016. A remake of a Nordic black comedy handed to a director and two writers with that background is a clear statement of intent: the producers wanted the comedy of the premise to carry as much weight as the thriller mechanics.

Behind the camera, there is a direct line back to Norway. Cinematographer Matt Weston also shot The Trip in 2021, where he is credited as Matthew Weston, so the same director of photography photographed both versions of the story. Jeremy Cohen edited the remake, and the score is by Matthew Compton, who had already scored MacGruber and Popstar and plays in the band Electric Guest with Taccone’s brother, Asa Taccone. In the United Kingdom the film carries an 18 certificate from the British Board of Film Classification.

The cast and the release

The casting is the film’s main bet. Samara Weaving has spent the last decade building a career in horror comedy, from The Babysitter in 2017 to Ready or Not in 2019, and the sequel to Ready or Not shared the SXSW 2026 lineup with this film. Jason Segel comes from the opposite direction: the comedy of How I Met Your Mother and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and more recently the Apple TV+ series Shrinking. Putting a horror lead and a comedy lead in the same marriage is, on paper, exactly the friction the story is built on.

Around them, the supporting cast leans into recognizable screen personas. Timothy Olyphant brings the history of Justified and Deadwood to an escaped killer, Juliette Lewis, whose credits stretch from Natural Born Killers to Yellowjackets, plays the corrections officer who chose the fugitives’ side, and Keith Jardine, who fought in the UFC and Strikeforce before turning to acting, plays the second convict. Paul Guilfoyle, a familiar face from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, plays Dan’s father, the cabin’s owner.

Over Your Dead Body premiered at South by Southwest on March 14, 2026 and opened in American cinemas through IFC on April 24, 2026, the same weekend as the Michael Jackson biopic Michael and the thriller Fuze. Projections before that weekend put its opening at around 3 million dollars from roughly 2,000 theaters, and its total gross was reported at about 2.4 million dollars. Outside the United States it skipped cinemas almost entirely and arrived on Prime Video on June 10, 2026, which is where most of its international audience will find it.

What makes Over Your Dead Body worth a look is less the novelty of its premise, which audiences outside Norway could already find on Netflix, than the experiment of retelling the same story with different hands: an American comedy team, the same cinematographer and a cast whose careers sit on either side of the line between laughs and screams. Whether the marriage at its center holds together is the film’s business. Whether the remake justifies itself next to The Trip is a question each viewer can settle with both versions a few clicks apart.