First there was Mike Flanagan’s Hush, about a deaf woman trapped in a house. This summer we’ll see the release of Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe, in which a bunch of kids break into a blind man’s home. Next up is a remake of a 1970s classic in which the protagonist is blind. It’s all about the senses these days…
Screen Gems is developing a remake of See No Evil, not to be confused with WWE’s slasher franchise of the same name.
The 1971 Columbia Pictures horror movie starred Mia Farrow as a young blind woman returns to her uncle’s English country home where she’s visiting to discover her family murdered and the killer still in the house. Richard Fleischer directed Brian Clemens’ script.
Mike Scannell will write the new script, and Unbroken Pictures’ Bryan Bertino (The Strangers, Mockingbird) and Adrienne Biddle will produce, Deadline adds, including that Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper and EVP Production Scott Strauss will oversee for the studio.
Screen Gems and Unbroken are already partnered on the horror thriller He’s Out There, also penned by Scannell and to be directed by Dennis Iliadis. Bertino is also working on the screenplay for The Strangers 2, a sequel to the 2008 pic he wrote and directed. He is in post on the fantasy horror film Stephanie starring Frank Grillo and the horror pic There Are Monsters starring Zoe Kazan and Ella Ballentine.
