Director Lee Daniels, who helmed
Billie Holiday, An Affair of State
(2021),
The Butler
(2013) and
Paperboy
(2012), has been cast by Netflix to direct a new horror film project in collaboration with MGM and Miramax.
A few days after the launch of
Archive 81 and the imminent release of
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
remake
, the announcement had its small effect.
Although the title is still unknown.
With a budget of 65 million dollars, Lee Daniels will be able to have fun.
Especially since it will benefit from a beautiful cast.
According to
Deadline,
Caleb McLaughlin, Glenn Close, Octavia Spencer will join Andra Day in the role of a mother whose children have been exorcised, in Indiana in the United States.
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A thriller based on a true story
The production is based on a story that made headlines in 2011. Latoya Ammons and her three children moved into a rental house on Carolina Street in Gary.
The appearance of swarms of flies under the entrance close was already unpleasant.
But that was without counting the mysterious thuds coming from the basement or the muddy footprints on the living room carpet.
The local press seizes on this story of a haunted house, where children climb on the walls or express themselves with abnormally deep voices...
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After
Precious
,
Paper Boy
and
Billie Holiday, An Affair of State
, the American director therefore immerses himself in this terrifying story.
And finds Andra Day, chosen to embody the mother overwhelmed by events.
The 36-year-old diva was her
Billie Holiday
, a role from which she came out "
completely turned around
".
Alongside her, Octavia Spencer, Oscar winner for
The Color of Feelings
, will play Latoya Ammons' pastor friend.
Glenn Close, 74, to play grandmother and
Stranger Things star
Caleb McLaughlin, 20, one of the children.
Aunjanue Ellis and Rob Morgan round out the cast.
For the screenplay, Dave Coggeshall was selected, as well as Elijah Bynum, to whom we owe
Hot Summer Nights
(2017) with Timothée Chalamet.
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Filming should start in 2022, although no date has been announced.
The agenda for fans of the genre, however, promises to be loaded since Universal Pictures and Blumhouse acquired the rights to adapt
The Exorcist
for 400 million dollars, in order to produce a new trilogy announced for October 2023.