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Major Studios and Filmmakers Circle True Story of ‘The Watcher’
A piece of crap calling themselves “The Watcher” is scaring the shit out of a family, so much so that they’ve been forced to move out of their newly acquired house.
Yet, Hollywood and filmmakers are already hoping to capitalize on their pain and suffering.
According to this Tracking Board there’s a mad scramble to be the first out of the gate, with several packages being shopped all over town including names like James Wan (Insidious, Saw, The Conjuring) and Bryan Bertino (Mockingbird, The Strangers) in the mix.
Sources confirm to the site that interest is swelling and the project is taking shape at the likes of Blumhouse Productions, Dimension Films, New Line Cinema, and Universal. Several different takes on the true terror tale are being pitched across the board, some unofficially, with rights still up in the air.
The true story, which we wrote about last week, reported on a family and their three young kids who moved after an anonymous stalker – who referred to himself as “The Watcher” – sent terrifying letters about the new house they moved into.
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If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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