Disney+ has published a cast feature for Sami Raimi’s survivor thriller Send Help, and the setup is blunt: a plane crash strands Linda and her boss, Bradley, on a deserted island. Rachel McAdams plays Linda Liddle, an exceptional but undervalued employee on a consulting firm’s Strategy and Planning team who spends her off-hours alone with her pet bird, Sweetie.
Bradley Preston is Linda’s boss, the inherited chief executive of his late father’s consulting firm, and the feature frames him as charismatic, arrogant and used to getting his way. Around him are the people who make that orbit feel like a workplace and not just a survival story: his fiancée Zuri, his smug friend Donovan, the office flirt Chase and Franklin, a long-term employee who once served as a key operative under Bradley’s father. Dylan O'brien is also named in the cast list, alongside the note that he was previously seen in Twinless, Anniversary and Not Okay.
That matters because the feature is not a plot review or a release announcement. It is Disney+’s first guided look at the characters and the friction between them, and it ties Send Help to Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers. In other words, the company is using the cast breakdown to sell the premise as much as the movie: a professional hierarchy that survives long enough to be tested on an island where titles and charm stop working.
The tension in the setup is that Linda and Bradley are forced together before either of them can retreat to the roles that defined them at work. Linda is described as undervalued but highly capable, while Bradley is the kind of boss whose confidence has been reinforced by privilege and proximity to power. Disney+ leaves the story at the point where that clash becomes unavoidable, and that is exactly where the film’s appeal now sits: not in whether they crash, but in how long their office dynamic can survive after the crash has already happened.
