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‘A Head Full Of Ghosts’ Brings An Exorcism to TV
Get this, Focus Features is developing a movie based on Paul Tremblay’s upcoming thriller A Head Full Of Ghosts with Robert Downey Jr.’s Team Downey and Dan Dubiecki’s Allegiance Theater producing, Variety reports.
While Robert Downey Jr.’s Team Downey is producing, it doesn’t mention anything about Downey Jr. starring, although I would love to see him take on a role in this cool twist on the exorcism subgenre (even though Repossessed did it first).
A Head Full of Ghosts, to be published in June by HarperCollins’ William Morrow imprint, “centers on a normal suburban New England family being torn apart when the 14-year-old begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia — leading to tragedy as the family attempts an exorcism and finds themselves the subject of a reality TV show.”
The writing team of Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski will write the adaptation.
Jennifer Holland (“Peacemaker”) and Dave Annable (“Lioness”) will lead the cast of upcoming supernatural Civil War thriller Brine, Deadline reports this afternoon.
B.J. Golnick (“Hunting Hitler”) will be directing Brine.
Brine follows a family of Confederate deserters who escape the Union bombardment of Fort Pulaski with a cache of stolen gold and disappear into the Georgia marshlands.
When they take refuge in a remote plantation house, what first appears to be salvation slowly reveals itself as part of something ancient, predatory and impossible to escape.
Jonah Wharton (Lioness), Sissy Sheridan (Chicken Girls), and Grayson Lay (Outer Banks) also star. The screenplay was written by B.J. Golnick and Jeremy Miller.
“Brine is a story about survival, but it is also a story about inheritance…The violence we pass down, the myths we create to justify it, and the cost of trying to break free,” Golnick previews.
“We intend for the film to feel intimate, historically grounded and deeply unnerving, as if the supernatural elements weren’t invented, but unearthed from the marsh itself.”