EXCLUSIVE: Author Jeffrey Reddick, creator of the long-running Remaining Vacation spot horror franchise, is teaming with producer Todd Slater and extra on Bloody Mary: Origins, a chilling new tackle the traditional city legend.
Hailing from Slater’s Convoke Media, Huge Leisure and DreamPunk Leisure, the movie relies on the New York Occasions bestseller Mary: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan. The story focuses on a bunch of teenage ladies who uncover an historical spell that conjures the true Bloody Mary. When the terrifying entity pulls one of many ladies by way of the mirror, she turns into trapped prior to now dwelling out the true Mary Value’s final days. With time working out, the others should uncover a strategy to save their good friend prior to now whereas vanquishing a terrorizing Bloody Mary within the current.
Reddick wrote the script with John Stancari, who handed away in 2018 after a protracted battle with most cancers. Bloody Mary: Origins marks Stancari’s first produced movie and can be devoted to his reminiscence. Emmy winner Lane Shefter Bishop (The Venice Murders) is ready to direct and produce by way of her Huge Leisure banner. Todd Slater will produce by way of his Convoke Media shingle, together with DreamPunk Leisure’s Ryan Martin and Angela Ziegler. Brandon Evans will exec produce by way of his and Slater’s Brick Lane Leisure, with casting now underway.
In a press release on the challenge, Slater defined, “The script brings Reddick’s signature mix of suspense, humor and horror to a totally new tackle the city legend my buddies and I used to play as children. Very like “Remaining Vacation spot” created a theatrical franchise that generations have loved, our aim is for “Bloody Mary” to generate ongoing movies with the identical spectacular longevity.”
Launched in 2000 with Remaining Vacation spot, which James Wong directed from his script written with Reddick and Glen Morgan, Reddick’s Remaining Vacation spot franchise revolves round youngsters who cheat demise by narrowly escaping a catastrophic occasion, solely to search out themselves pursued by an invisible and malevolent pressure decided to say their lives in elaborate and infrequently grotesque methods. Thus far, the movie has spurred 5 sequels, together with the upcoming Remaining Vacation spot: Bloodlines, which is slated for launch by New Line subsequent yr, because the franchise celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary. Over the course of his profession spanning three a long time, Reddick has written and produced greater than 40 tasks in movie and tv in complete. Most not too long ago, he’s written on the Netflix sequence Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles and A Story Darkish & Grimm.
Current credit for Convoke embrace the sci-fi romance ReEntry starring Emily Deschanel, crime actioner King of Killers with Frank Grillo, horror pic The Sacrifice Sport starring Mena Massoud, sci-fi horror pic Code Crimson with Peyton Listing and Bailee Madison, and How The Gringo Stole Christmas starring George Lopez. Lately, Slater has additionally produced style movies together with the Andy Fickman-helmed Don’t Flip Out the Lights and the upcoming Don’t Log Off from Brandon and Harrett Baer.
Reddick is repped by Unbiased Artist Group, Brillstein Leisure Companions, and Behr Abramson Levy Johnson; Bishop by Gersh and Weintraub Tobin Chediak.
