Paramount & Original Film Take To Jason Pagan & Andrew Deutschman Horror Pitch Inspired By TikTok Videos
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: In a preemptive situation, Neal Moritz’s Original Film has landed an untitled horror pitch from Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman.Amanda Lewis will be producing for Original.
Pitch was bought through Original’s Paramount discretionary fund.Details are under wraps, but the project is based on a series of TikTok videos that Original controls.This sale brings the writers back into the Paramount fold where they wrote 2015’s Project Almanac and Blumhouse’s Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension.
Pagan and Deutschman have been on a nice roll, having sold the feature scripts, Classified to New Line Cinema for Chad Stahelski to direct, Every House Is Haunted to Netflix with Corin Hardy to direct, and Tarot to eOne with Andre Ovredal to direct.Tarot‘s plot is under wraps.
Fuller Media’s Brad Fuller and Alex Ginno are respectively producing and executive producing.Every House Is Haunted, produced by Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi for Raimi Productions and Roy Lee for Vertigo Entertainment, follows an insurance investigator who tries to debunk claims that a couple’s death was caused by a haunted house.
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