Netflix Lands Greg Weidman and Geoff Tock Spec ‘Below’ With ‘Shazam!’s David F. Sandberg Directing
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Following a highly competitive auction, sources tell Deadline that Netflix has landed the spec Below, which was written by Greg Weidman and Geoff Tock and will be directed by David F.
Sandberg. Insiders say the package had half a dozen studios and streamers in the mix for it with sources saying the the spec sold in the low seven-figures range.The package also reunites Sandberg with James Wan, who helped launch his career when Wan tapped him to direct The Conjuring spin-off Annabelle: Creation.
Wan and Michael Clear will produce through their Atomic Monster banner along with Sandberg and Lotta Losten for Mangata as well as Roy Lee for Vertigo.Plot details are being kept under wraps other then it being described as a genre thriller.After launching his career with Annabelle: Creation, New Line was quick to turn to him for their big adaptation of the DC comic Shazam!
The success of that film led to the studio fast-tracking a sequel. Sandberg is currently in post-production on Shazam!: Fury of the Gods with Zachary Levi reprising the titular role with Helen Mirren and Rachel Zegler also joining the cast.Weidman and Tock were most recently producers on Star Trek: Section 31 for CBS All Access.
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