EXCLUSIVE: Author Jeffrey Reddick, creator of the long-running Last Vacation spot horror franchise, is teaming with producer Todd Slater and extra on Bloody Mary: Origins, a chilling new tackle the traditional city legend.
Hailing from Slater’s Convoke Media, Huge Leisure and DreamPunk Leisure, the movie relies on the New York Instances bestseller Mary: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan. The story focuses on a gaggle of teenage women who uncover an historical spell that conjures the actual Bloody Mary. When the terrifying entity pulls one of many women by way of the mirror, she turns into trapped previously residing out the actual Mary Price’s final days. With time working out, the others should uncover a option to save their buddy previously whereas vanquishing a terrorizing Bloody Mary within the current.
Emmy winner Lane Shefter Bishop is about to direct and produce by way of her Huge Leisure banner. Todd Slater will produce by way of his Convoke Media shingle, together with DreamPunk Leisure’s Ryan Martin and Angela Ziegler. Bloody Mary: Origins will mark the primary produced movie of Reddick’s writing companion John Stancari, who handed away in 2018 after an extended battle with most cancers. The movie will likely be devoted to him. Brandon Evans will exec produce by way of his and Slater’s Brick Lane Leisure, with casting now underway.
In a press release on the challenge, Slater defined, “The script brings Reddick’s signature mix of suspense, humor and horror to a very new tackle the city legend my mates and I used to play as children. Very similar to “Last Vacation spot” created a theatrical franchise that generations have loved, our objective is for “Bloody Mary” to generate ongoing movies with the identical spectacular longevity.”
Most lately, Bishop has directed and produced titles like The Venice Murders, From Paris with Hazard, and an Eclectic Christmas.
Launched in 2000 with Last Vacation spot, which James Wong directed from his script written with Reddick and Glen Morgan, the Last Vacation spot franchise revolves round youngsters who cheat demise by narrowly escaping a catastrophic occasion, solely to search out themselves pursued by an invisible and malevolent pressure decided to assert their lives in elaborate and sometimes grotesque methods. Thus far, the movie has spurred 5 sequels, together with the upcoming Last Vacation spot: Bloodlines, which is slated for launch by New Line subsequent 12 months, because the franchise celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary. Over the course of his profession spanning three a long time, Reddick has written and produced greater than 40 tasks in movie and tv. Most lately, he’s written on the Netflix collection Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles and A Story Darkish & Grimm.
Latest credit for Convoke embody the sci-fi romance ReEntry starring Emily Deschanel, crime actioner King of Killers with Frank Grillo, horror pic The Sacrifice Sport starring Mena Massoud, sci-fi horror pic Code Crimson with Peyton Checklist and Bailee Madison, and How The Gringo Stole Christmas starring George Lopez. Lately, Slater has additionally produced style movies together with the Andy Fickman-helmed Don’t Flip Out the Lights and the upcoming Don’t Log Off from Brandon and Harrett Baer.
Reddick is repped by Unbiased Artist Group, Brillstein Leisure Companions, and Behr Abramson Levy Johnson; Bishop by Gersh and Weintraub Tobin Chediak.
