The spec is described as The Ring meets Ready Player One.
In A Nightmare on Elm Street, if Freddy Krueger kills you in your dreams, you die in real life. /Reddoor has a similar premise, only upgraded for the tech-savvy, smartphone age. In the script, penned by Teddy Tenenbaum and Minsun Park, a young journalist discovers the new app game he is reviewing has the ability to kill the player once they’ve entered the game world.
The journalist must stop the game before he and his sister become its victims.
Deadline reports today that Sony Pictures has picked up the supernatural thriller spec script for producers Barry Josephson, Liz Bassin and Jim Wedaa. Paradigm sold the spec.
More as we learn it.
