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EXCLUSIVE: Two of nan much in-demand names successful scary are teaming connected a caller thriller astatine Searchlight Pictures arsenic nan workplace has group Watcher director Chloe Okuno to helm Bad Hand from a book by Black Christmas scribe April Wolfe. Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman, Alison Small will nutrient for Brownstone Productions.
The movie follows a mild mannered kindergarten coach who nan week earlier her wedding, is nan unfortunate of a deed and run. In nan aftermath of nan accident, she discovers to her scary that nan trauma has caused her correct manus to enactment pinch a mind of its own, bent connected bloody revenge.
Head of Acquisitions and Production Chan Phung and Director of Acquisitions and Production Marielle Membreno are overseeing nan task for Searchlight Pictures, reporting to Heads of Production and Development DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.
Okuno astir precocious wrapped Brides for Neon, which she wrote and directed, starring Olivia Cooke. Okuno antecedently wrote and directed Watcher, starring Maika Monroe, which premiered successful nan U.S. Dramatic Competition astatine Sundance 2022 to captious acclaim and was released by IFC Films. Okuno completed her master’s grade astatine nan American Film Institute Conservatory, wherever she besides received nan Franklin J. Shaffner Fellow Award. Her short film Slut screened astatine festivals worldwide, earning aggregate assemblage and assemblage awards.
Wolfe was nan creator and big of nan long-running podcast “Switchblade Sisters” earlier she co-wrote 2019’s Black Christmas. Since, she has written nan comic thriller Clawfoot and is successful improvement connected various movie and tv projects.
Okuno is represented by UTA and Jackoway Austen, Wolfe is represented by UTA, XYZ, and Jackoway Austen and Brownstone is repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
