Gabrielle Union is about to star within the Justin Dyck-directed horror movie The Casket Women, scripted by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant
The writing duo of Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant are finest identified for his or her work on comedies and household pleasant tasks: Reno 911!, Taxi (2004), The Pacifier, Herbie: Totally Loaded, Let’s Go to Jail, Balls of Fury, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Baywatch (2017), Night time on the Museum, and Night time on the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. However they’ve additionally written the horror comedy Hell Child, and Garant has written the horror movies The Veil and Jessabelle. So it’s not fully off model to listen to that they wrote the preliminary screenplay for the upcoming horror movie The Casket Women, with Gabrielle Union (Breaking In) on board to star and government produce.
Deadline stories that Justin G. Dyck will probably be directing The Casket Women and has carried out script revisions with Keith Cooper (Something for Jackson). Dyck has loads of directing credit to his title, most of them being on romantic TV films, lots of them set on Christmas, however he has additionally labored on the Shudder TV sequence Creepshow and directed the horror movie Something for Jackson.
The Casket Women is impressed by the true story of a gaggle of younger girls despatched from France to New Orleans to turn into brides to French colonists within the early 1700s. They arrived with small chests, or “caskets” of their belongings, therefore the title given by locals. In keeping with legend, upon the ladies’ arrival, the murder charge in New Orleans rose dramatically, with tales of males drained of their blood. The ladies have been blamed and feared to be demons or vampires, and for town’s safety, they have been imprisoned within the attic of the Vatican-controlled Ursuline Convent, which nonetheless stands right this moment within the coronary heart of the French Quarter, locked away behind an impenetrable door and home windows bolted shut by nails blessed by the Pope himself. The movie takes place in right this moment’s world as Detective Shay Williams (Union) and her companion turn into trapped contained in the Ursuline Convent with a gaggle of vacationers when the Casket Women escape from their attic jail for the primary time in over 300 years.
QC Entertainment’s Sean McKittrick and Raymond Mansfield are producing the movie. Union government produces alongside QC’s Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Lighthouse Footage’ Jameson Parker. Regardless of the New Orleans setting, filming will happen in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Manufacturing is about to start on October fifteenth.
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