Barbarian and Weapons filmmaker Zach Cregger is reteaming with producer Roy Lee once again, this time to produce the new dark comedy Little One, Deadline reports today.
Little One will mark the feature debut of Cregger’s friend Alex Kavutskiy, who also wrote the screenplay.
As for plot, the dark comedy follows ” a sudden change in a child’s behavior that threatens to tear a picture-perfect family apart.”
While that description could apply to Weapons, too, don’t expect Little One to get quite that dark. Kavutskiy writes on comedic series Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat and previously directed Sundance short Squirrel and the Adult Swim special Cool Dad.
Chris McEwen (Love, Simon) will also produce Little One, along with Amanda Phillips and Melina Torres of Soto Productions (Winner, The Assistant).
Casting is underway.
In the meantime, expect to hear a lot more from Cregger very soon; Sony’s CinemaCon presentation tonight is slated to include Cregger’s upcoming Resident Evil movie, another collaboration between the director and producer Roy Lee.
Lee previously said of Cregger’s Resident Evil, “It’s like a roller coaster ride of nonstop action, of just showing a point of view of a character and an original story in the world of Raccoon City, where it’s like the experience of watching the movie is similar to the experience you would get playing the game, is what Zach is trying to do,” the producer explains.”
Directed by Cregger from a script he co-wrote with Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapters 3 and 4), Resident Evil opens in theaters on September 18 via Sony.