Blair Butler (The Invitation, Polaroid, Hell Fest) will write Occupant, a haunted home film produced by Barbarian’s Zach Cregger
Earlier this 12 months, it was introduced that New Line Cinema had come out the winner in a bidding struggle over the haunted home challenge Occupant, which might be primarily based on a 39-page quick story by new author Victor Sweetser. Now that the writers strike has come to an finish, The Hollywood Reporter has found that New Line Cinema and producer Zach Cregger, the author/director of final 12 months’s Barbarian (watch it HERE), have discovered the author who will flesh Sweetser’s story out right into a screenplay: Blair Butler, a former author and on-air character for exhibits like Assault of the Present who has gone on to work on a number of style movies. Her earlier writing credit embrace The Invitation (the vampire film that starred Nathalie Emmanuel), Polaroid, and Hell Fest. Butler was additionally a producer on the Marvel-inspired TV sequence Helstrom.
The Occupant buy was a part of Cregger’s year-long successful streak. Made on a funds of $4.5 million, Barbarian earned greater than $40 million on the home field workplace when it was launched by twentieth Century Studios final 12 months – a sufficiently big success story that New Line Cinema forked over $38 million to choose up Cregger’s mysterious new horror challenge, Weapons. (Beating out Jordan Peele and Common within the bidding struggle.) New Line then signed a first look deal with BoulderLight Photos, the manufacturing firm behind Barbarian. And as a part of this deal, they put a sci-fi thriller referred to as Companion on the quick monitor to manufacturing, with Cregger producing alongside BoulderLight and Vertigo’s Roy Lee.
Cregger is producing Occupant with Roy Lee and Scott Glassgold, who originated and developed the challenge. The set-up is described as a reverse haunted home story. As a substitute of a household shifting into an abode, right here a historic home is moved for preservation functions right into a neighborhood. Scares ensue.
Occupant sounds attention-grabbing to me, and I’ve loved Butler’s earlier style movies to various levels, so I sit up for seeing how this one goes to end up.
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