Goldcrest Films has begun production in the UK on the supernatural thriller Slumber, with in-demand commercials Director Jonathan Hopkins (EBay, McDonald’s and Sony) behind the camera, Bloody Disgusting learned out of EFM in Berlin.
Maggie Q (pictured; Mission Impossible 3, Live Free or Die Hard) has signed on to play Alice, a rationally minded sleep doctor, who is forced to abandon scientific reason and accept a family is being terrorised by a parasitic demon which has existed in every human culture since records began. Paralysing victims as they sleep, the ‘Night Hag’ is the original Nightmare.
The film also stars Will Kemp (Van Helsing), Sylvester McCoy (The Hobbit) and William Hope (Sherlock Holmes).
Slumber is written by 2013 Blood List entrant and multiple award winning screenwriter Richard Hobley and by Hopkins. The film is being produced by The Tea Shop & Film Company’s Mark Lane and James Harris (currently in post on I Am Not a Serial Killer) and by Pascal Degove of Goldcrest Films. Executive Producers are Goldcrest Films’ Nick Quested and Maggie Q.
