They say death occurs in threes. But only two will direct.
Back in 2013 it was announced that Global Renaissance Entertainment Group had entered into a multi-picture production deal with Jeffrey Reddick, creator of the Final Destination franchise.
Reddick’s new slate with Global, which will feature multi-ethnic and culturally diverse casts, was said to be led off by Reddick’s screenplay Superstition: Final Chance, a horror/thriller set on a university campus.
After years in development, the film is scheduled to begin production this October in Georgia, with Kevin Goetz and Michael Goetz, directors of the Martyrs remake, helming the project.
“A white-knuckle thriller that puts a wicked twist on the superstition that “deaths occur in threes,” and also comments on our addiction to social media and technology, our desensitization to violence in a society that runs on a 24-hr news cycle, and a culture that breeds isolation, paranoia – and fear. After two deaths occur on a university campus, a young co-ed (CARA) and her friends are lured into participating in The Dead Pool – an online game based on the superstition that ‘death comes in threes,’ where students place bets on who will die next. No one knows who started the game, but everyone’s playing. However, what starts as a morbid joke soon turns to terror when the person Cara ‘selected’ actually dies and Cara wins The Dead Pool. Now, THE REAPER, the mysterious creator of The Dead Pool, starts stalking Cara and her friends, killing them one by one. To make things worse, all of the clues point to Cara as the killer, making her an outcast on campus and the prime target of the…”
Superstition: Final Chance is being set up as the first in a series of pictures aimed at leveraging Reddick’s fan base from the five Final Destination movies, the original Variety article explained. CEO Arthur Wylie and chief operating officer Dale Godboldo will produce with Reddick exec producing.
Reddick’s Dead Awake has been making festival rounds this year, with a Shriekfest premiere slated for this month.
