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‘The Lion King’ Animator Moves into ‘My Haunted House’ with Frankenstein, Count Dracula, Mummies, and Zombies!
Concourse Film Trade has acquired worldwide rights to the feature animation film My Haunted House, directed by Alex Williams, reports Variety.
The film sounds like a more suburban take on Hotel Transylvania, with a sprinkle of Monster House:
The story follows Charlie, a perfectly normal 14-year-old boy, who lives in a perfectly normal, ordinary town. He just happens to live in a haunted house with his strange and embarrassing supernatural family made up of Frankenstein, Count Dracula, mummies, and zombies.
Williams has animation credits on The Lion King as the animator for Scar, The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The producer in charge of animation is Bob Thompson, who previously worked for Lego and BBC.
My Haunted House is in pre-production and is produced by Tigon Entertainment (U.K.) in association with Liquid Media Group in Vancouver. Productivity Media Inc., which has a financing pact with Concourse Media, recently signed a three-year first-look deal with Liquid.
Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is staying busy here in 2024, directing not only the werewolf movie Big Bad but also an upcoming thriller titled Drop.
The project for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes is being described as a “fast-paced thriller,” and Deadline reports today that Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) has joined the cast.
Newcomer Jacob Robinson has also signed on to star in the mysterious thriller. Previously announced, Meghann Fahy (“White Lotus”) will be leading the cast.
Landon recently teased on Twitter, “This is my love letter to DePalma.”
Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach wrote the script.
Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller — “who brought the script in to Platinum Dunes” — are producing the upcoming Drop. Sam Lerner is an executive producer.
THR notes, “The film is a Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse production for Universal.”
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