Overview

• Mark Swift and Damian Shannon will script the project after collaborating with Raimi Productions on the survival thriller Send Help.
• Producers include Chris Hammond and Tim Sullivan alongside Raimi and Lee, with Raimi Productions’ Zainab Azizi also producing.
• Paul Fishkin and Andrew Childs will serve as executive producers, and Meredith Wieck and Pavan Kalidindi are overseeing for Lionsgate.
• Lionsgate, Hammond, and Sullivan assembled the original film’s rights holders to clear the path for the reimagining.
• The 1978 film, directed by Richard Attenborough from William Goldman’s novel and screenplay, starred Anthony Hopkins as a ventriloquist, and no release date for the remake has been announced.