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Joe Hill’s ‘The Fireman’ Picked Up by Fox
Fox has announced that they have acquired the film rights to “The Fireman“, the upcoming novel from Joe Hill (Locke and Key, NOS4A2, Horns). The movie will be directed by Louis Leterrier (The Transporter) and will be about a pandemic of spontaneous human combustions that threaten to burn up the human race…quite literally. According to Deadline, the explosive plague is apparently caused by a highly contagious spore, one that threatens the life of a pregnant nurse. Help comes from a group of improbable heroes, led by a mysterious figure known only as “The Fireman”. Dun dun DUN!
The novel will come out May 17th and no tentative release date has yet been issued for the film.
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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