Assemble Media, Bluestone Entertainment Developing Assemble’s Horror Short Story ‘The Support Group For The Possessed’ For Film
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Bluestone Entertainment has preemptively acquired rights to The Support Group for the Possessed, the original horror short story written for Assemble Media by J.
Preston Witt, with plans to produce a feature adaptation alongside Assemble. Scribes set to adapt the pic are Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan, the duo behind Paramount’s found footage title Project Almanac, as well as Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension.
In The Support Group, a patient, charged with a murder they cannot remember, finds themselves subjected to a 5150 psychiatric hold in an institution.
There, they uncover a chilling truth: the facility is dedicated to treating disorders that stem from supernatural causes. The Assemble team came up with the original concept before developing it into a short story, featured in the third edition of its genre-focused quarterly short story magazine, Assemble Artifacts, which is published through Blackstone Publishing.
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