It’s Fatal Attraction for the smartphone age.
Online dating is a pretty scary thing. With one swipe of your finger, you can connect with a total stranger, and with a few taps of a few buttons, you can set up a real-life meeting with that person… who may or may not even be who they’ve presented. Dating apps have undoubtedly connected true soulmates, but like all things, there’s a dark underbelly to the whole scene.
And Paramount is set to explore that dark side.
Deadline reports that Paramount has acquired the thriller pitch Gasp for Offspring Entertainment. The script is set to be penned by Mario Celaya, with Jessica Sharzer (“American Horror Story”) supervising and co-producing. Jennifer Gibgot and Adam Shankman will produce.
The film is inspired by a number of true stories of women who are getting killed by men they are meeting on dating apps:
A female detective has to go undercover online to catch a killer who is murdering women he meets on a specific popular dating app. She starts to fall for one of the suspects who has been cleared, only to discover that he may in fact be the killer.
More as we learn it.