Lionsgate has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the upcoming horror movie “A Head Stuffed with Ghosts.”
David Harbour, Rebecca Corridor and Esmé Creed-Miles are in closing negotiations to star in “A Head Stuffed with Ghosts,” based mostly on the award-winning horror novel by Paul Tremblay (first printed in June of 2015 by the William Morrow imprint of HarperCollins).
“A Head Stuffed with Ghosts” shall be written and directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the award-winning filmmaking duo behind the German-language hit “Goodnight Mommy,” which was additionally Austria’s 2014 Oscar entry for Finest International Language Movie. They made their English-language debut with “The Lodge,” starring Riley Keough, which Neon launched in 2020. “A Head Stuffed with Ghosts” is their first American major-studio movie and begins taking pictures in March.
Producers are Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine of The Allegiance Theater, Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr. of Staff Downey, alongside David Gambino and Fifth Season.
The synopsis for “A Head Stuffed with Ghosts” follows a household whose “suburban life is torn aside when their teenage daughter’s descent into insanity turns into the topic of a actuality present. Fifteen years later, her sister Merry faces her household’s haunting previous with a journalist, uncovering the very nature of the evil that destroyed them.”
“We’re thrilled to companion with Staff Downey, The Allegiance Theater, and David Gambino, and our associates at Fifth Season, who collectively convey distinctive status and artistic confidence to the mission,” Adam Fogelson, chair of Lionsgate Movement Image Group, stated in a Friday assertion. “This crew’s inventive imaginative and prescient for this terrifying story has been simple – placing, distinct and genuinely unsettling. It’s no shock that Stephen King referred to as this e-book his favourite novel of the previous decade and stated that it ‘scared the residing hell’ out of him – which says all of it.”
Lionsgate will launch the movie on the upcoming European Movie Market. Lauren Bixby negotiated the deal on behalf of the studio. Staff Downey is represented by WME and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala are represented by WME and Black Bear.
