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Filmmaking duo Veronika Franz And Severin Fiala, best known Goodnight Mommy, which was Austria’s 2014 entry for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and the Riley Keough-led The Lodge, have signed on to direct the horror feature A Head Full of Ghosts. Production is set to begin later this year.
Fifth Season is financing development and production of the pic. Producers are Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine from The Allegiance Theater, Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr. for Team Downey, and David Gambino. The film is an adaptation of Paul Tremblay’s Bram Stoker Award-winning novel of the same name.
The film’s logline reads: The Barretts’ normal suburban New England life is torn apart when their teenage daughter shows signs of acute schizophrenia, reluctantly leading them to be the subjects of a reality show “The Possession.” Fifteen years later, Merry faces her family’s haunting past when a journalist is assigned help tell her side of the story and uncovers the very nature of evil.
Tremblay’s novel was published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 2015. In addition to the Bram Stoker Award, Tremblay has won the British Fantasy Award and Massachusetts Book Award. Tremblay’s other books include The Cabin at the End of the World — which was adapted by M. Night Shyamalan last year into a feature film grossing over $54 million globally — as well as The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, The Little Sleep, No Sleep Till Wonderland, and the short story collections Growing Things and Other Stories and The Beast You Are.
Franz and Fiala’s last film, The Lodge, debuted at Sundance and was acquired by Neon in 2019. Their next film, The Devil’s Bath, will compete for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, which opened this evening.
Franz and Fiala are represented by WME. Tremblay is represented by Stephen Barbara at InkWell Management.
