Overview
- Searchlight secured rights to A. C. Robinson’s short story in a competitive deal reported as the first high-profile package sale of the year.
- Lena Waithe will adapt the material and produce under her Hillman Grad banner.
- Steven Caple Jr. is set to direct and produce for Grey Skies Pictures, with Jeannette Francis serving as executive producer.
- Scott Glassgold will produce for 12:01 Films, while Searchlight’s Rayne Roberts and Cameron Chidsey oversee development under DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.
- The film is described as a psychological horror-thriller with its logline undisclosed, and Robinson has expanded the story into a novel to be published by 12:01 Books.