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Spooky Pictures Broadcasts a ‘Late Night With the Devil’
After the hugely successful Sundance premiere of Chloe Okuno’s Watcher, genre label Spooky Pictures next plans a Late Night With the Devil, reports Variety.
The supernatural chiller follows the live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 that goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms.
Late Night With the Devil will be helmed by Australian writing/directing duo Colin and Cameron Cairns (100 Bloody Acres, Scare Campaign) and is set to start shooting in Australia later this year.
“In the ’70s and ’80s, there was something slightly dangerous about late-night TV,” said the duo in a statement. “Talk shows, in particular, were a window into some strange adult world. We thought combining that charged, live-to-air atmosphere with the supernatural could make for a uniquely frightening film experience.”
Cinetic is handling the U.S./North American rights to the film.
Spooky Pictures founders Roy Lee (It, The Ring, The Grudge) and Steven Schneider (Pet Sematary, Paranormal Activity, Insidious), Derek Dauchy and Future Pictures’ Mat Govoni and Adam White are all producing. Australian filmmaker Joel Anderson (Lake Mungo) and John Molloy will serve as executive producers.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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