Netflix is getting into the anthology game with another from producer Sam Raimi and his Ghost House Pictures.
Hot off directing the R-rated supervillain horror film Brightburn, David Yarovesky will get behind the camera on Night Books, which will star “Jessica Jones” fav Krysten Ritter, pictured, with Winslow Fegley (Come Play) and Lidya Jewett, reports Deadline.
Based on the J.A. White horror-fantasy children’s book “Nightbooks”, the family-targeted horror pic follows Alex (Fegley), a boy obsessed with scary stories, who is imprisoned by an evil young witch (Ritter) in her contemporary New York City apartment. He meets Yasmin (Jewett), who is also trapped there, and learns he must tell a new scary story every night in order to stay alive.
Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert will produce through Ghost House Pictures along with MXN Entertainment’s Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen.
Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis will adapt the script. Ghost House Pictures’ Romel Adam will exec produce and MXN Entertainment’s Tracy Kopulsky will co-produce.
