Paramount Photos is closing offers to be the studio behind Smile author/director Parker Finn’s Possession remake
Director Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 horror movie Possession is so distinctive, it’s tough to think about anybody even trying to remake it. The mind-bending creature function was a mirrored image of the problems Żuławski was coping with on the time; his marriage had led to a devastating divorce, he was pushed out of his residence nation of Poland as a result of the Communist authorities didn’t approve of his filmmaking endeavors, and Possession was his method of purging darkish feelings. It’s not one thing that may be replicated – however Parker Finn, the author/director of Smile and the upcoming Smile 2, has an strategy to the fabric that he desires to share with the world. It was introduced final month that Finn will probably be writing and directing a Possession remake, with Robert Pattinson producing by means of his firm Icki Eneo Arlo. (Whether or not or not Pattinson takes an appearing function within the movie will rely upon the script and his schedule.) Now The Hollywood Reporter has damaged the information that Paramount Photos is closing offers to be the studio behind the challenge.
The truth that Paramount is getting concerned isn’t any shock, for the reason that studio can also be residence to Finn’s Smile motion pictures. The Hollywood Reporter notes that “the Possession pact is personal for Paramount CEO Brian Robbins and motion picture co-heads Daria Cercek and Michael Ireland, who fought hard to keep Finn in the Paramount family.” There was an intense bidding conflict over the challenge, with Warner Bros., Sony, and Paramount being the ultimate contenders within the working.
Finn is producing the Possession remake below his Dangerous Feeling banner. Producing alongside Finn and Pattinson are Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Pattinson’s Icki Eneo Arlo associate Brighton McCloskey.
Scripted by Żuławski and Frederic Tuten, the unique Possession was set in West Berlin and starred Sam Neill as a spy who returns residence from the sector to his spouse (Isabella Adjani) and son. All isn’t quiet on the marital entrance, because the spouse asks for a divorce and the couple descends right into a harmful cycle that not solely consists of infidelity and neglect, however spins into homicide, a tentacled alien creature and doppelgangers. The remake will probably be Finn’s greatest movie but, however The Hollywood Reporter’s sources say he hopes to control an intimate story.
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