4 weeks ago
Liam Hemsworth is group to prima successful action-horror-thriller They Like The Dark, which will beryllium a basking genre package astatine nan upcoming Cannes market.
Mike Pecci is directing from a screenplay by Will Simmons. Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, and Sam Roston will nutrient for Scott Free Productions. Joshua Harris, Nathan Klingher and Ford Corbett will nutrient for Gramercy Park, who is besides financing.
The movie follows a half-blind explosive tech who wakes chained successful a storage pinch nary representation of his presence and must trust only connected his instincts and his loyal work canine to past nan horrors that hunt him successful nan dark.”
Production is being lined up for precocious 2026. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group co-represent nan film’s home distribution rights, while Fortitude is handling international.
Upcoming for Scott Free is The Riders pinch Brad Pitt starring and Edward Berger directing for A24, Nighwatching pinch Mila Kunis starring and Adam Schindler & Brian Netto directing for Fifth Season, and Inground starring Kyle Gallner and Alex Daddario and Aaron Katz directing for Gramercy Park. On platform are Here Be Monsters pinch Joachim Ronning directing for Paramount Pictures and ALIEN astatine 20th Century Studios.
They besides person The Dog Stars bowing this August pinch Ridley Scott directing and Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin starring.
Hemsworth is represented by UTA, Fourward, Morrissey Management and Yorn, Levine & Gellman. Pecci is represented by UTA. Simmons is represented by CAA, Untitled and McKuin Frankel Whitehead LLP. Scott Free Productions is represented by CAA and Gang, Tyre.
