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‘Lovecraft Country’ Reunion: Misha Green to Direct Jurnee Smollett in Lionsgate Thriller ‘Sunflower’

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Misha Green and Jurnee Smollett will embark on their third collaboration with Green’s directorial feature debut, “Sunflower.”The Lionsgate film has been described as a thriller about two women who attempt to escape from a remote sunflower farm, where they are being held hostage by a deranged college professor.Green will write and direct, as well as produce along with Craig Flores.

Production is slated to begin this summer.“’Sunflower’ was the first script I sold when I landed in Hollywood, and now having the opportunity to make it my first feature directorial outing feels like kismet,” said Green in a statement. “I couldn’t have hoped for better partners and collaborators than Nathan, the Lionsgate team, Craig, and Jurnee to help me shepherd it to the big screen.”“Everyone at our studio was completely drawn in by the way Misha, Jurnee, and the ‘Lovecraft Country’ team worked so confidently to create a compelling genre series – then subverted the genre and reinvented it through a new lens,” said Nathan Kahane, President of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group. “That’s the opportunity with ‘Sunflower.’ The screenplay is unique, thrilling, and flat-out scary.

It’s going to make a hell of a movie.”Meredith Wieck and Aaron Edmonds will oversee the project for Lionsgate. The deals were negotiated for the studio by Dan Freedman..

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