A Quiet Place duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods have accomplished a rewrite of Sam Raimi’s horror thriller Ship Assist, which is now at twentieth Century
Again in 2007, it was rumored that Sam Raimi could be producing a fantasy movie with a screenplay written by Freddy vs. Jason and Friday the thirteenth 2009 writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. That didn’t pan out, however a decade later Raimi thought of directing a Bermuda Triangle undertaking that when had Shannon and Swift engaged on the script. Once more, that didn’t pan out, with Scott Derrickson and extra just lately Marc Webb choosing up the undertaking after Raimi dropped it. In 2019, it was introduced that Raimi could be directing an untitled island horror thriller, working from a script by Shannon and Swift. Then the pandemic hit and Raimi went on to direct Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity… however now he has circled again to the island horror thriller, which goes by the title Ship Assist. This one was as soon as arrange at Columbia Footage, however Deadline studies that it has moved over to twentieth Century Studios – and the script has been rewritten by the duo of Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.
When Ship Assist was first introduced, it was mentioned to be like “Misery meets Cast Away” in tone. That’s nonetheless the outline being given, as Deadline talked about, “the film is described as a two-hander horror thriller set on an island, falling somewhere between Rob Reiner’s Stephen King adaptation Misery and Robert Zemeckis’ classic Castaway.” twentieth Century hasn’t formally given it a greenlight but, however right here’s hoping they are going to quickly.
Beck and Woods wrote the preliminary screenplay for A Quiet Place and have beforehand labored with Raimi on the Adam Driver dinosaur film 65 and the anthology sequence 50 States of Fright. They wrote and government produced the Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman for twentieth Century Studios.
Raimi is producing Ship Assist alongside Zainab Azizi, the President of his firm Raimi Productions.
Movie scooper Daniel Richtman just lately revealed that Ship Assist has the next logline: Comedy-adventure horror a few feminine put-upon worker and her jerk boss. On a enterprise flight along with their firm, the aircraft crashes on an island and solely these two make it. She has severe survival expertise which suggests she’s his solely hope.
Richtman additionally shared character particulars: LINDA: Smartest particular person within the room, however nobody takes her significantly. Actor can’t be overly comedic, must be plausible in severe workplace setting. Eyed Sandra Bullock. BRADLEY: LINDA’S misogynistic boss.
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