Two and a half years ago, Sony Pictures emerged victorious in a bidding war over the film rights to author Riley Sager’s novel Home before dark (grab a copy HERE) – which hadn’t even been published at the time. Now the project is finally moving forward, as The Hollywood Reporter breaks the news that Creep and there is someone in your house director Patrick Brice has signed on to direct the film, from a screenplay by The inviteit’s Blair Butler.
Shawn Levy’s production company 21 Laps Entertainment, one of the companies behind the Netflix series stranger thingsproduct Home before dark, with Senior Vice President Emily Morris and Creative Director Emily Feher overseeing the project. Since the adaptation is said to be in “early development”, Sony isn’t sharing any plot details…but since it’s based on Sager’s novel, we can use the book’s description to get an idea. idea of what the film is. is going to be approx.
Clearly inspired by the Lutz family and The Amityville Horror (which even gets a wink in the description), Home before dark tells the following story:
A woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s best-selling horror memoir and the problem becomes, is it really haunted like her father claimed? Some 25 years earlier, the young woman had moved in with her parents at Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the woods of Vermont. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the middle of the night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a non-fiction book titled House of Horrors which described ghostly encounters with spirits that vied with each other in popularity and skepticism. with The Amityville Horror.
The woman restores old houses and was too young to remember what her father described in a book that made him rich. She inherits the property and considers herself skeptical when she returns to renovate the house. She is confronted with many people from the house’s past. So much so that she’s starting to think maybe he wasn’t making this up.
Sounds pretty interesting, and Brice has done some solid movies before, so I can’t wait to see how Home before dark will turn out.
Brice’s directing credits also include The Overnight, Creep 2, Corporate Animals, and episodes of Room 104. In addition to writing The inviteButler also worked on the scripts for party from hell and Polaroid.
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