“Adam Egypt Mortimer‘s (Some Kind of Hate, Holidays) Daniel Isn’t Real might just be the best horror movie playing at the SXSW Film Festival this year,” Trace wrote in his review of the film earlier this year, and we’ve learned today that the Patrick Schwarzenegger-starring film has been acquired by Shudder and Samuel Goldwyn Films!
Deadline reports that the thriller from SpectreVision has been co-acquired by the two companies here in North America. It’ll hit both theaters and VOD later this year.
“In the film, co-written by Mortimer and Brian DeLeeuw and based on DeLeeuw’s book ‘In This Way I Was Saved,’ troubled college freshman Luke (Miles Robbins) suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel (Schwarzenegger) to help him cope. Charismatic and full of manic energy, Daniel helps Luke to achieve his dreams, before pushing him to the very edge of sanity and into a desperate struggle for control of his mind, and his soul.”
Sasha Lane, Hannah Marks and Mary Stuart Masterson also star.
Producers include Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, Lisa Whalen and Elijah Wood.
