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‘The Dagon’ – Creatures Hunt Frank Grillo in Brad Anderson’s Next!
Session 9 director Brad Anderson continues to pump out new genre films and is next hunting down Frank Grillo in The Dagon, Variety reports.
In The Dagon…
“When the eldest daughter comes of age, an isolated family taking shelter in their rural house must confront the terrifying, deadly creatures that surround them every night.”
The “gripping psychological thriller” is currently in pre-production with Neal Edelstein (Mullholland Drive, The Ring, Night’s End) and Mike Macari (Alone) both producing. It was penned by Peter Mattei (“Outsiders”).
Frank Grillo, who appeared in The Purge: Anarchy, The Purge: Election Year, and Beyond Skyline, is also starring in the Steven C. Miller-directed werewolf horror film Year 2, and the Charles Manson-inspired Man’s Son.
Brad Anderson also directed Blood, which is currently for sale at the Cannes market, as well as The Machinist, Vanishing on 7th Street, The Fractured, and many others.
Independent Entertainment are repping the film, which will launch sales in Cannes this month. Independent are co-repping North American rights with CAA.
“The Dagon is one of those rare scripts that delivers a story and characters you completely invest in, only to totally pull the rug from under you,” said Marc Hofstatter, head of acquisitions for Independent Entertainment said.
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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