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Iranian Horror Movie ‘The Night’ Being Released By IFC Midnight in Early 2021
IFC Midnight has acquired domestic rights to Kourosh Ahari’s psychological thriller The Night, Deadline reports today, with plans to release the film in January 2021.
The Night stars “Shahab Hosseini (A Separation, Cannes 2016 Best Actor winner for The Salesman) and Niousha Jafarian (Here and Now, Stitchers) as an Iranian couple who find themselves locked inside an old hotel with their one-year-old daughter. While attempting to make the best of this creepy hotel, an outside force pushes them to share the secrets they’ve hidden from each other. How, and if, they check out depends on how carefully they question everything and anyone that comes across their path.”
George Maguire (Fight Club, Pursuit of Happyness) also stars.
“We feel elated that we have found such a caring and supportive partner, IFC Midnight, to be the champions for this Iranian story,” said Ahari. “The Night on the surface is a thrilling psychological horror pivoting around an Iranian couple, but beneath it explores a common, yet very complex human condition intending to provoke the minds of audiences leaving theaters.”
Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is staying busy here in 2024, directing not only the werewolf movie Big Bad but also an upcoming thriller titled Drop.
The project for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes is being described as a “fast-paced thriller,” and Deadline reports today that Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) has joined the cast.
Newcomer Jacob Robinson has also signed on to star in the mysterious thriller. Previously announced, Meghann Fahy (“White Lotus”) will be leading the cast.
Landon recently teased on Twitter, “This is my love letter to DePalma.”
Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach wrote the script.
Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller — “who brought the script in to Platinum Dunes” — are producing the upcoming Drop. Sam Lerner is an executive producer.
THR notes, “The film is a Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse production for Universal.”
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