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In the wake of Get Out, Jordan Peele found himself attached to a handful of projects, most notably next year’s directorial follow-up, Us. The smartest thing any studio could probably do right now is scoop up Peele and let him do whatever the hell he wants, but reports suggest that Disney is not quite on board with one of his dream projects.
As reported by /Film, Richard Rushfield writes in the latest issue of entertainment industry newsletter The Ankler that Peele wants to direct a film adaptation of “Gargoyles,“ the Walt Disney Television animated series that aired for three seasons between ’94 and ’97 and centered on ancient gargoyles who become New York City’s nighttime protectors!
According to Rushfield’s report, Disney isn’t so sure about Peele’s pitch. Rushfield writes…
“How do you turn down Jordan Peele? Well, you can’t. Who wants to be responsible for that decision? So in the absence of a good reason to say no, but prevented by their Big IP box from saying yes, Disney is slow walking the decision. It’s hoping, it seems, that they’ll run out the clock, he’ll sign other deals elsewhere, and the project will just fade away.”
In other words, Disney execs are worried that Peele’s Gargoyles pitch is too much of a risk, but no one really wants to be the one to turn down a potentially great idea.
Give. Him. All the money.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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