Fresh off the smash hit box office success of Obsession, director Curry Barker is already putting the finishing touches on his next movie. It’s titled Anything But Ghosts, and the horror-comedy reunites Barker with Blumhouse and distributor Focus Features.
Deadline reports this week that Chris Reinacher (“Superstore”) has joined the cast of Anything But Ghosts. The outlet details, “Reinacher is a filmmaker, comedian, writer and digital creator whose scripted and unscripted videos have amassed over 400 million views online. His short films have been screened at Sundance and Cannes. His latest directorial work can be seen on the That’s a Bad Idea YouTube channel in the short film Fly Me to the Earth, a sci-fi comedy he directed, co-wrote, and stars in alongside Barker and Cooper Tomlinson.”
Curry Barker directs Anything But Ghosts from a script he co-wrote with Cooper Tomlinson (Milk & Serial). Both Barker and Tomlinson will also star as the film’s ghost hunters.
“It’s about these two con artist ghost hunters that just con old women and single dads, but they’re really good at it,” Curry Barker tells CBR. “They can make the table shake, they can make the lights flicker. They’ve got all this special equipment.” He continues, “They put on a show… until they run into a very real, very dangerous dark entity.”
“It’s so different than Obsession, because the idea itself just lends itself better to comedy, because it’s literally about two ghost hunter con artists,” Barker told Bloody Disgusting.
“It’s Cooper and me doing our thing, so it lends itself better to comedy, but it’s still set in this super grounded world. It’s ghosts being real in a world where ghosts are not real,” he added.
Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”), Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World), and Violet McGraw (M3GAN) also star in Anything But Ghosts. Stay tuned for more info as we learn it.
Curry Barker had just revealed last week that the upcoming Anything But Ghosts features an Easter Egg reference/connection to the world of his hit horror movie Obsession!
