Andrzej Bartkowiak Set To Direct Supernatural Thriller ‘The Dire Wolf’ For Steelyard Pictures
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Steelyard Pictures, the production company behind 2022 horror thriller The Inhabitant, has attached Andrzej Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die) to direct The Dire Wolf, a supernatural thriller to shoot in New Mexico, for release next year.
No word yet on the casting front. But the film tells the story of Hank Whitmore, a sharp and stubborn New Mexican sheriff who aligns with the Navajo Nation when a series of supernatural events threatens his family, his town, and his way of life.
Ry Cook penned the script and Leone Marucci (The Inhabitant, The Power of Few) will produce alongside Tetrad Studios’ Roy Scott Macfarland (The Devil You Know, Fast Charlie), Legacy Media Ventures’ Jeffrey Katz (Buffaloed), and Randy Mendelsohn.
Matthew Coates and Kenneth Heilfron will serve as EPs. “American cinema has long wrestled with our native culture’s spiritual connection to the natural world,” observed Marucci, explaining that “the extinct Dire Wolf was [once] indigenous to North America.
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