‘Parasite’ Producer CJ Taps Deon Taylor To Direct Horror-Thriller ‘Grave Hill’, The Remake Of Vietnamese Hit ‘The Housemaid’
Andreas Wiseman International EditorParasite producer CJ Entertainment has tapped Black And Blue and Traffik filmmaker Deon Taylor to direct gothic horror-thriller Grave Hill, the company’s English-language remake of the hit Vietnamese horror film The Housemaid.As we previously revealed, Oscar-winner Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious) wrote the adapted screenplay with Derek Nguyen, writer-director of 2016 film The Housemade, which explores racial and social themes through a genre lens. The remake will take place in the American South during the Reconstruction Era.In the original, an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina.