Brie Larson & J.J. Abrams' New Monster Horror Movie Reveals Official Release Date

Credit: Abaca Press/INSTARimages Published Jul 20, 2026, 5:34 PM EDT Matthew Rudoy is one of ScreenRant's Movie & TV News Editors. He covers the latest in movie & TV news, with a focus on major franchises like Star Wars, The Boys, and Game of Thrones, and also writes some features and reviews. He wrote lists for ScreenRant from 2017-2022, became a news writer in 2023, a senior staff writer in 2024, and an editor in 2025. Sign in to your ScreenRant account This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.The release date is revealed for Brie Larson and J.J. Abrams' new horror movie. Larson previously won an Academy Award for her performance in Room and received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the Apple TV miniseries Lessons in Chemistry. She is also known for playing Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers in numerous Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and has also starred in Kong: Skull Island, Just Mercy, Fast X, and The Bear. Her most recent movie is 2026's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, where she voiced Rosalina. Deadline now reports that Larson's upcoming movie Skeletons will be released in theaters on June 4, 2027. J.J. Abrams is producing via Bad Robot Productions, while JT Mollner directs and added revisions to the original script written by Brian Duffield. The story is based on Philip Fracassi's short story "Fail-Safe" and revolves around a young boy learning a dark secret that his parents are concealing about his mother's true nature. Larson's co-stars include Kyle Gallner, Daithí Ó hAragáin, John Goodman, Willa Fitzgerald, Ione Skye, and Keith Carradine​​​​​​​. This reunites Larson and Goodman after their roles in the 2017 Monsterverse movie Kong: Skull Island. The project is also a Strange Darling reunion, as Mollner wrote and directed the psychological crime thriller film, which features Gallner and Fitzgerald in the lead roles. Fracassi previously revealed via his Instagram account that Skeletons began filming in late June. This comes after his short story was written 10 years ago, struggled to be sold to any publisher, ended up in his collection Behold the Void, and selected to be among the Best Horror of the Year Volume 10. It began to be shopped around Hollywood six years ago, with Abrams' Bad Robot aboard the potential adaptation. Larson and Mollner eventually joined as well, and Sony Pictures bought the project for $25 million in a bidding war that also included Paramount, Warner Bros., and Neon. Skeletons is not Bad Robot's only upcoming movie, with the company producing The End of Oak Street, which hits theaters on August 14. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor lead the cast of the science-fiction survival movie directed and written by David Robert Mitchell, which sees a family fighting to survive after their neighborhood is transported and finds itself overrun with dinosaurs. On October 1, 2027, Bad Robot also has The Great Beyond, starring Glen Powell and Jenna Ortega, which is the first film Abrams has directed since 2019's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. More to come...