Nearly three decades after they fought giant bugs together in Starship Troopers, Denise Richards and Casper Van Dien are back on the same set, and this time the enemy is a lot more human.

The pair have just wrapped shooting on No Free Lunch in Hamilton, Ontario, according to Deadline, playing FBI agents racing to track down a kidnapper before he can carry out a planned murder-suicide. The film is the third title in a slate coming out of Horizon Line and March On Productions, sitting alongside Silent Nightfall with Stana Katic and Elisha Cuthbert, and Greatest Actress with Mena Suvari and C. Thomas Howell.

The plot itself sounds grim by design. A mother and daughter, played by Lara Daans and Arcadia Kendal, are picked up after what starts as an ordinary college drop-off. Their captor is a former surgeon, played by Sebastian Pigott, who is trying to make good on a promise to his dead mother by marrying one of the two women he's holding. Richards and Van Dien come in as the agents working the case on what the film's own synopsis calls the slimmest of leads.

Damian Lee directs from a script he co-wrote with Larissa Laskin. Bennet De Brabandere produces for Horizon Line, with Richard Salvatore of March On serving as executive producer. Maurizio Guarini scores the film, Raf Strupinski shot it.

What makes this one worth flagging beyond the nostalgia is the timing. No Free Lunch is heading into the Toronto International Film Festival market this week, where Roman Kopelevich of Red Sea Media will be pitching it to international buyers. Quiver Distribution already has domestic sales locked down. That's the usual TIFF market rhythm: films that never play the festival's public slate quietly changing hands in hotel suites a few blocks from where the red carpet premieres happen.

Starship Troopers, for anyone who needs reminding, came out in 1997 and turned Richards and Van Dien into a pair of the era's more recognisable action faces, even if Paul Verhoeven's satire took years to get its critical due. The two have crossed paths since in various projects, but this is being described as their first proper reunion as co-leads.

A spring 2027 release is the current target, though nothing about distribution timelines is locked until a festival market actually produces a deal. For now, the film exists as a finished shoot and a sales pitch, with Toronto's buyers about to decide how wide its reach ends up being.

Whether No Free Lunch turns into a theatrical release or a streaming pickup will likely become clearer once the TIFF market wraps and Kopelevich's conversations with distributors settle into actual contracts.