Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne of New Line Cinema are teaming up together to produce Gifted, a new mystery thriller that will mark the third feature-length film that Shaye will direct.
Shaye tells Deadline that the film is, “…about a young aspiring musician preparing for a competition and is incredibly confidant and gets herself involved in a frightening trap that she has to find her way out of. It raises the question, if an insane person is telling a story, is it real? The audience will have to decide.”
The film stars John Kroft, Katherine Hughes, Giles Matthey, Kyanna Simone Simpson, Dylan McNamara and Sonoya Mizuno.
Shaye’s New Line Cinema is the “House that Freddy built”, thanks to the massive success of the A Nightmare on Elm Street films. Shaye himself has appeared in several of the films in small bit parts. For example, he played himself in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.