Michael and Peter Spierig are awesome filmmakers. I love their indie zombie flick Undead, not to mention their sci-fi vamp pic Daybreakers, as well as their paradox thriller Predestination, both starring Ethan Hawke.
Now, the duo are taking on the supernatural subgenre with Winchester, which is based on the world famous Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA.
The Spierigs have written the script and the film is set for financing by Diamond Pictures and Bullitt Entertainment, just in time for the Cannes market, Deadline reports.
“Winchester tells the strange and dramatic tale of Sarah Winchester, who was heir to the Winchester firearms fortune. Her husband and child died suddenly, and Sarah came to believe she had been cursed by the lethal legacy of the “gun that won the west” and all of those who ended up on the wrong end of the gun barrel. She consulted a medium, who sent her to San Jose in 1884 to begin a massive construction process that took 38 years and resulted in a 24,000-square-foot, 160-room Gothic mansion.“
The pic was developed by Imagination Design Works, which owns rights to the house and gave this film its only endorsement, which allows the film to shoot on the premises of the actual home.
Shooting will begin later this year in San Jose and Australia, although this project was announced back in 2014. Hopefully it actually gets off the ground this time…
