Author Paul Tremblay‘s novel A Head Full of Ghosts is getting a feature film adaptation, and Variety reports that Fiona Dourif (“Chucky,” “The Pitt”) has joined the cast.
Fiona Dourif joins David Harbour (“Stranger Things”), Rebecca Hall (Godzilla vs. Kong), Bodhi Rae Breathnach (Hamnet), Hollie Hill-Pearson, and Esmé Creed-Miles (“The Sandman”) in the movie adaptation A Head Full of Ghosts, which is being written and directed by Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala (Goodnight Mommy, The Lodge).
The daughter of horror legend Brad Dourif, Fiona Dourif has been carving out her own impressive career in the horror space and beyond. After starring in the films Curse of Chucky and Cult of Chucky as Nica Pierce, along with reprising the role in the “Chucky” TV series, Fiona Dourif is now a series regular on the hit HBO Max series “The Pitt,” playing Dr. McKay.
A Head Full of Ghosts adapts the novel by author Paul Tremblay.
The film follows a suburban family whose life is torn apart when their teenage daughter’s decent into madness becomes the subject of a reality show.
Fifteen years later, her sister Merry faces her family’s dark past with a journalist uncovering the nature of the evil force that undid them.
Variety details, “Hollie Hill-Pearson will play young Merry, while Esmé Creed-Miles will portray the character as an adult. Bodhi Rae Breathnach will be her older teenage sister Marjorie; and Fiona Dourif and David Harbour are playing the parents.”
Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey will produce the film for Team Downey.
Lionsgate recently picked up the world rights to A Head Full of Ghosts.
