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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is fresh to suffer its caput complete nan basking package Hollow, as nan workplace has landed nan caller retelling connected Sleepy Hollow tale starring Sydney Sweeney. Based connected nan Lindsey Anderson Beer debut novel, nan task will beryllium directed, produced and adapted by Beer pinch LuckyChap and Sweeney’s Honey Trap banner besides producing.
Deadline first collapsed news astir nan package past period and besides announced that nan caller would beryllium published by Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Random House, successful Fall 2027. Sources opportunity Sony came successful accelerated and difficult to return it disconnected nan array for nan prima successful a competitory situation.
Hollow is Honey Trap’s first movie it will produce. The recently launched institution pinch Kaylee McGregor serving arsenic President of Production and Development, precocious announced a first-look woody pinch Sony Pictures.
The caller is simply a reimagining of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, told done nan position of Katrina Van Tassel. Reframing 1 of literature’s astir iconic heroines, nan caller positions Van Tassel not arsenic a romanticist prize, but arsenic nan cardinal fig successful a vulnerable enigma and seductive supernatural emotion triangle. The communicative blends gothic atmosphere, psychological intrigue, and seductive thriller elements into a contemporary, high-concept reinvention of nan classical tale. Alexandra Banks and Spencer Walken will exec nutrient for Beer’s Lab Brew banner.
The worldly aligns intimately pinch each parties mandates and visions and starring to Sweeney, Honey Trap and LuckyChap each committing successful grounds time.
Sony has gotten correct into casting nan romanticist triangle of nan iconic characters Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane, now 1 of nan hottest unfastened castings successful town.
In updated publishing news, pursuing nan monolithic preempt by Putnam, translator authorities to nan book person sold astir nan world, pinch grounds offers from immoderate territories, turning Hollow into a world publishing arena for autumn 2027. A uncommon feat for a caller astatine launch, particularly a debut.
Sweeney has had a long-standing narration pinch Sony Pictures having executive produced and starred successful nan smash hit Anyone but You opposite Glen Powell which grossed complete $210 cardinal worldwide astatine nan container office. She can past beryllium seen other Amanda Seyfried successful Lionsgate’s adjustment of nan best-selling novel The Housemaid. The movie grossed astir $400 cardinal worldwide quickly greenlighting nan sequel The Handmaid’s Secret. She besides precocious led nan film Christy in nan title domiciled of Christy Martin. Directed by David Michôd for Black Bear Pictures, pinch Sweeny besides producing.
Beer wrote and directed Pet Sematary: Bloodlines and wrote and executive produced Sierra Burgess Is a Loser. Pet Sematary Bloodlines debuted number 1 connected its merchandise and collapsed Paramount+ grounds for astir watched movie aft premiering astatine Fantastic Fest. Sierra Burgess Is a Loser debuted number 1 globally connected Netflix, and its original opus “Sunflower,” besides penned by Beer, made nan Billboard charts. Beer is simply a go-to writer, director, and shaper known for building worlds and character-driven, and authored takes connected big-hook ideas.
Sweeney is repped by Brillstein and Hansen Jacobson, Beer is repped by Brillstein, WME, and Gang Tyre Ramer and LuckyChap is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360, Narrative, and Attorney Jeff Bernstein.
