We’re in desperate need of a slasher revival, and Fox is hoping it’s going to be Dead Mall, a pitch that will be written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, Deadline reports.
The duo that shared the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay with Alexander Payne for The Descendants and wrote and directed the Sundance sensation The Way Way Back.
The pitch is a comedy-horror movie set in a dead mall, clearly. What’s interesting is that, “The title comes from a growing national phenomenon, these second tier malls that are scattered about the country, skeletal shrines to a boom in shopping. When the shoppers stopped coming, the malls fell into disrepair and closed. Set in that backdrop, the comedy concerns an ensemble of 40-year old guys, seemingly with enough brainpower to escape a slasher film-quality killer, but maybe not.”
Kevin Walsh is producing through B Story, and Faxon and Rash will be executive producers. B Story has an overall deal at Sony Pictures TV with two shows currently in development at NBC and Epix.