Looking way ahead to 2018, one genre pic we’re super excited for is CBS Films’ Winchester, which stars Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren.
Bloody Disgusting has your first look at Mirren at impossibly wealthy recluse Sarah Winchester, who obsessively kept her 160+ room home under construction twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for thirty-eight years straight. Winchester was in fact inspired by true events.
Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Zero Dark Thirty, Terminator Genysis), Sarah Snook (Predestination, Jessabelle), and Angus Sampson (Insidious, TV’s “Fargo”) also star in the film.
Inspired by true events, WINCHESTER follows the story of firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), who was convinced that she was haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester Repeating Rifle. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she threw herself into the 24-hours a day, seven days a week construction of an enormous mansion designed to keep the evil spirits at bay. But when skeptical San Francisco psychiatrist Eric Price (Jason Clarke) is dispatched to the estate to evaluate her state of mind, he discovers that her obsession may not be so insane after all. The film will take audiences inside the labyrinth-like house that is believed to be one of the most haunted places in the world.
Michael and Peter Spierig (Daybreakers, Predestination, SAW: Legacy) direct with CBS targeting a spring 2018 release.
