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‘Daybreakers’ Directors Haunted By ‘Winchester’ Ghosts
They will build the largest haunted house ever.
Michael and Peter Spierig, the Aussie filmmakers behind Undead, Daybreaks and Predestination, have in their crosshairs the Hammer Films’ supernatural thriller Winchester, reports Deadline.
“The pic is about an heir to that firearms family fortune who believes she has been cursed by the victims and the lethal legacy of the “gun that won the West.””
The Spierig siblings will rewrite to direct the film, which will be shot in the world famous Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. The story revolves around heir Sarah Winchester who in 1884 began 38 years of construction on the 24,000 square foot, 160-room Gothic mansion. It was after the sudden deaths of her husband and child that Winchester began to believe she was cursed by the family legacy, and she was instructed to build the mansion by a spiritualist medium, to appease the spirits. She never stopped building.
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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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