EXCLUSIVEBrett and Drew Pierce (The Worst() were selected to direct and write the supernatural horror.Room 428Screen Gems.
Details as to the film’s plot are being kept under wraps. But filmmaker Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Doctor StrangeC. Robert Cargill (screenwriter) and Sherryl Carl are joining Crooked Highway to produce. News of the trio’s latest project follows the release of their hit horror feature The Black Phone, which Derrickson directed from his and Cargill’s script, which was itself based on the short story of the same name penned by Joe Hill. Derrickson also returns to Screen Gems, where he previously directed the films. Emily Rose and the ExorcismAnd Deliver us from EvilFor the studio. Scott Strauss will be in charge of the studio. Giselle John will manage it. Room 428Screen Gems.
Most recently, the horror film was directed by The Pierce Brothers. The WorstIt was an IFC Midnight sleeper hit, with the film’s title being “The Countdown”. Following the film’s release in theaters in 2020, it secured the number one spot at the box office in the U.S. for six consecutive weekends, becoming the first to hold that record since the release of AvatarIn 2009. The WorstThe film was available to stream on Netflix starting July 31st. It was also charted as one among the Top 10 Most Viewed Films in the U.S. The zombie cult film was the Pierce Brothers’ feature directorial debut. DeadheadsThe festival circuit launched the ‘” in 2011 with the ‘”
Released in the U.S. in June, Crooked Highway’s The Black Phone watches as a 13-year-old boy (Mason Thames) is abducted by a child killer (Ethan Hawke) and locked in a soundproof basement, then beginning to receive calls on a disconnected phone from the killer’s previous victims. Universal Pictures’s Universal Pictures film has already grossed more than $142M around the world.
Brett and Drew Pierce are represented by A3 Artists Agency, Gotham Group, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Crooked Highway by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewitt & Kole.