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EXCLUSIVE: Sonja O’Hara has emerged arsenic nan inaugural expansive prize victor of a caller penning competition, aimed astatine discovering commercially viable short stories for characteristic adaptation, from Roadmap Writers, a programme founded by Joey Tuccio and Dorian Connelley that connects emerging writers pinch manufacture professionals, and Ben Everard’s Everard Entertainment (Netflix’s Yes Day and Family Switch).
Selected from thousands of submissions, O’Hara’s short communicative “Slay” will beryllium optioned by Everard Entertainment for development. She developed nan title alongside Scott Glassgold of 12:01 Films, who successful caller years has emerged arsenic a awesome unit successful trading short stories for characteristic adaptations, and will service arsenic a shaper connected nan project.
In “Slay,” a successful lawyer’s dream protégé becomes her worst nightmare erstwhile nan female she hires originates copying her life — and won’t extremity until she replaces her completely. Inspired by O’Hara’s real-life experience, nan communicative blends psychological thriller pinch assemblage scary successful nan vein of Single White Female meets Gone Girl. Drawing from a stranger-than-fiction individual history, O’Hara —an Emmy-nominated, queer, Canadian filmmaker — explores nan psychological and beingness usurpation of seeing herself replicated aft a real-life woman underwent integrative room to reflector her nonstop likeness.
O;Hara, who conscionable vanished co-directing her sophomore characteristic Snare this month, shared that her agent, David Boxerbaum of Verve encouraged her to constitute “Slay” aft proceeding astir her experience.
In a connection connected nan option, Ben Everard said, “Sonja’s genre instincts successful some conception and execution jumped disconnected nan page – her short communicative Slay has each nan ingredients basal for adjustment into a successful characteristic film. I’m thrilled to thief bring it to life pinch her.”
In summation to Verve, nan writer is repped by Anonymous Content and Fox Rothschild.
Founded successful 2023, Everard Entertainment’s upcoming slate includes Apple/Skydance’s Way of nan Warrior Kid starring Chris Pratt, arsenic good arsenic Amazon MGM’s The Man pinch nan Bag, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Ritchson, and Awkwafina.
Notable caller projects group up by Glassgold see Long Lost astatine Universal pinch Steven Spielberg, The Dwelling at Amazon pinch Michael B Jordan, Ripped astatine 20th Century pinch The Rock, After Shock astatine Lionsgate pinch Brand Sklenar, The Occupant at New Line Cinema pinch Zach Cregger, Code Black at Amazon pinch Jake Gyllenhaal, and The Caretaker with Sydney Sweeney, to sanction conscionable a few. Up adjacent for him is Drew Hancock’s Amazon MGM movie My Wife and I Bought a Ranch, based connected nan acclaimed short communicative and consequent caller by Harrison & Matt Query. Glassgold is repped by Verve and Jeff Frankel.
