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Palahniuk’s ‘Haunted’ Gets Adapted by Ex-Drummer
Fans of Chuck Palahniuk (Choke, Fight Club) get excited as another one of his novels is being adapted for the big screen, this time it’s a thriller fit just for Bloody-Disgusting! Coming from new production company “New School Media” is Haunted, a chilling tale of survival that is set to be adapted and directed by Koen Mortier, who blew people’s minds with his crazy crime dram EX-DRUMMER. Read on for the details.
Former ICM lit agent Brian Levy has launched a management and production company, New School Media. Levy’s first move under the new banner is optioning the rights to Chuck Palahniuk’s novel “Haunted.”
Koen Mortier will adapt and direct.
“Haunted” revolves around a group of characters who answer an ad for a writers retreat and unwittingly end up competing in a “Survivor”-like scenario, where the host withholds heat, power and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show or film that they expect will be made from their plight.
Palahniuk, author of nine novels, is popular with Hollywood filmmakers. His books “Fight Club” and “Choke” have been made into films, while “Invisible Monsters” and “Survivor” are in development.
Mortier, who also works as a commercial director, made his directorial debut with “Ex-Drummer,” which premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival.
Levy’s client list includes Mortier and Andrew Lau, whose “Infernal Affairs” served as the basis for Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed.”
Additionally, New School Media has also inked a first-look deal with ArtFire Films (“George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead”).
Blumhouse is bringing killer doll M3GAN back to the screen in M3GAN 2.0 in 2025, and Deadline reports today that Ivanna Sakhno (Let It Snow, “Ahsoka”) has signed on to star.
Ivanna Sakhno is said to have a “major role” in the upcoming sequel.
The follow-up from Universal and Blumhouse will release in theaters on May 16, 2025.
Allison Williams and Violet McGraw are back for the sequel, with Akela Cooper (Malignant, M3GAN) once again writing the script and James Wan on board to produce.
SPOILER WARNING: M3GAN ends with the titular doll being destroyed, but if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the Child’s Play franchise it’s that killer dolls can never truly be killed!
M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out’s Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to.
When Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned 8-year-old niece, Cady (Violet McGraw, The Haunting of Hill House), Gemma’s unsure and unprepared to be a parent. Under intense pressure at work, Gemma decides to pair her M3GAN prototype with Cady in an attempt to resolve both problems—a decision that will have unimaginable consequences.
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