Nick Johnson served as editor on writer-director Tarek Tohme’s music-based drama, Hold On (2019), and then was an editor on the Hulu-aired thriller, Run (2020), starring Sarah Paulson and directed and co-written (with Ohanian) by Chaganty. Johnson’s debut as writer-director (with Merrick) was the Screenlife-style thriller, Missing (2023), following the template established by Searching, and co-starring Storm Reid and Nia Long, earning over $26 million by mid-February after a mid-January release.