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Sam Raimi Producing Supernatural Romantic Comedy ‘You’re Dead Helene’!
As director, it’s been too long since Sam Raimi had a little fun with the genre. While his Evil Dead series turned slapstick, his Ghost House Pictures produced a blistering remake that socked the audience right in the face. As producer, he’s also been behind several great genre offerings from Don’t Breathe to Crawl.
Next up, he’s once again blending horror and comedy with You’re Dead Helene, which is based on Michiel Blanchart’s award-winning short film (pictured), which he wrote and directed, says Deadline.
TriStar Pictures has acquired the rights to the supernatural romantic comedy, which is being produced by Raimi and Rob Tapert at Ghost House and Michaël Goldberg and Boris Van Gils at Playbox Pictures. Caellum Allan will oversee the project for TriStar Pictures. Romel Adam will oversee for Ghost House.
“The film is touching and terrifying. Michiel is one of the few modern directors that can balance humor and terror, and he does it in an exciting new way,” said Raimi.
“Currently in consideration for the 2022 Academy Awards Shortlist, the live action short film is produced by Daylight Films and Formosa Productions, is supported by Canal+, FWB and Region Grand Est, and has played at numerous prestigious film festivals around the world including Rhode Island International Film Festival (won Oscar qualifying Grand Prize), Clermont Ferrand, Sitges (won Best Short Film), Austin Fantastic Fest (won the Short Fuse Award), and the Gerardmer Film Festival (won the Grand Prize).”
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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