Easily one of my favorite actors right now is Mackenzie Davis, who will see her run as Cameron Howe on “Halt and Catch Fire” come to an end in the coming weeks. Having some other films under her belt already, including the excellent indie Always Shine and Warner Bros.’ forthcoming Blade Runner 2049, not to mention a pivotal role in one of the best “Black Mirror” episodes, she’s worked her way into a headlining role. Next up for her is an Amblin horror film!
Davis has signed on to star in the supernatural horror film The Turning, which is being directed by The Runaways‘ Floria Sigismondi, who also helmed a shit ton of insane music videos including Marilyn Manson’s The Beautiful People.
The contemporized ghost story is inspired by Henry James’ 1898 novella “The Turn of the Screw” and is being penned by Chad and Carey Hayes, best known for House of Wax, The Conjuring 2, The Conjuring 2, and The Crucifixion.
In the book, “A young woman’s first job is as a governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children at a forlorn estate…an estate haunted by a beckoning evil.
Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls…
But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that the children have no terror of the lurking evil. For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.”
The Turning is being produced by Scott Bernstein and Roy Lee.
News first reported by TTB.
