CBS Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Michael and Peter Spierig’s Winchester, which is based on the world famous Winchester Mystery House, Deadline reports.
With the duo set to go into production on the next entry of Lionsgate’s SAW this fall, they will now begin filming Winchester in March 2017 on location in San Jose and in Australia.
“Winchester tells the strange and dramatic tale of Sarah Winchester, who was heir to the Winchester firearms fortune. Her husband and child died suddenly, and Sarah came to believe she had been cursed by the lethal legacy of the “gun that won the west” and all of those who ended up on the wrong end of the gun barrel. She consulted a medium, who sent her to San Jose in 1884 to begin a massive construction process that took 38 years and resulted in a 24,000-square-foot, 160-room Gothic mansion.“
Helen Mirren is starring as Sarah Winchester, as previously reported.
The pic was developed by Imagination Design Works, which owns rights to the house and gave this film its only endorsement, which allows the film to shoot on the premises of the actual home.
As I stated before, Michael and Peter Spierig are awesome filmmakers. I love their indie zombie flick Undead, not to mention their sci-fi vamp pic Daybreakers, as well as their paradox thriller Predestination, both starring Ethan Hawke. This should be a fun one!