Paul Feig is ready to room with Jason Blum. The duo are teaming for a function adaptation of the Netflix unscripted sequence Worst Roommate Ever for Blumhouse.
Feig will direct a function centered on a newly single girl discovering a seemingly excellent gentleman to sublet the spare room in her dream house, solely to be taught his deceit goes past a phony title and utility. She has unwittingly invited a serial squatter into her house, and he gained’t go away with no struggle.
“Jason and I’ve been looking for the right mission to collaborate on for years and this story is tailored to ship the scares, thrills, emotion and comedy of dread that each he and I wish to entertain audiences with,” Feig stated in a press release. “In different phrases, I couldn’t be happier to have Jason as the perfect roommate ever for this movie.”
Feig not too long ago accomplished The Faculty for Good and Evil for Netflix. His upcoming initiatives embody directing and producing the action-comedy movie Jackpot for Amazon MGM Studios, and he not too long ago wrapped manufacturing on A Easy Favor 2, a sequel to the 2018 thriller of the identical title.
The function tackle Worst Roommate Ever will likely be produced by Laura Fischer and marks the primary time Blumhouse has produced a film and TV present primarily based on the identical piece of mental property. A 2018 New York Journal article by William Brennan impressed the unique unscripted TV sequence Worst Roommate Ever from Blumhouse Tv, which has earned two seasons on Netflix.
It’s understood Blumhouse at all times had plans to adapt Brennan’s article as a TV sequence and have movie, however the large display adaptation didn’t get a greenlight till Feig obtained on board.
Feig welcomed teaming with Jason Blum on the function adaptation. “Jason and I’ve been looking for the right mission to collaborate on for years and this story is tailored to ship the scares, thrills, emotion and comedy of dread that each he and I wish to entertain audiences with. In different phrases, I couldn’t be happier to have Jason as the perfect roommate ever for this movie,” he stated in a press release.
The manufacturing credit on the function adaptation are additionally shared by Blum, Chris Morgan and Vox Media’s Scoop Wasserstein. Government producing are Chris Morgan Productions’ Ainsley Morgan, William Brennan and Blumhouse’s Bea Sequeira.
Blumhouse re-teamed with Stephen Susco (Unfriended: Darkish Net) on the screenplay for Feig’s function. Haley Pigman is overseeing the mission for Blumhouse.
“Paul is the right director for this as a result of his work at all times manages to strike a stability between the darkish and the sunshine, and I’m very excited to see all the things he’ll deliver to this story,” Blumhouse CEO and founder Blum stated.
