Parker Finn, Robert Pattinson
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Paramount Photos is closing offers with Robert Pattinson and Smile filmmaker Parker Finn to sort out a remake of Possession, the cult 1981 psychological supernatural horror film written and directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski.
The deal is being made within the shadow of the landmark transaction that noticed guardian firm Paramount International comply with be acquired by a consortium led by Skydance. That deal will take a few yr to finish, together with clearing regulatory hurdles.
The Possession pact is private for Paramount CEO Brian Robbins and movement image co-heads Daria Cercek and Michael Eire, who fought exhausting to maintain Finn within the Paramount household. He’s a homegrown expertise, with Smile turning into a shock hit at Paramount in 2022.
Finn will write the script, direct and produce through his Dangerous Feeling banner. Pattinson will produce through his manufacturing firm Icki Eneo Arlo. His appearing involvement will probably be clarified down the highway because the script and schedules develop.
Vertigo Leisure’s Roy Lee, who helped produce Zach Cregger’s breakout Barbarian, can even produce.
The bundle hit the city in mid-June, shortly eliciting a bidding battle. In accordance with sources, theatrical gamers Warner Bros., Sony, and Paramount had been the ultimate bidders.
Set in West Berlin, the unique Possession starred Sam Neill as a spy who returns residence from the sector to his spouse (Isabella Adjani) and son. All isn’t quiet on the marital entrance, because the spouse asks for a divorce and the couple descends right into a harmful cycle that not solely consists of infidelity and neglect, however spins into homicide, a tentacled alien creature and doppelgangers.
The film was Zulawski’s meditation on marriage, written as a response to his personal crumbling relationship. The film, a world co-production between France and Germany, was not successful nor notably well-received when it was launched, but it surely gained a cult standing for the filmmaker’s full dedication to the premise and went via a reappraisal.
The deal marks a leveling up for Finn, who’s in publish on Smile 2 for Paramount and has a first-look cope with the studio. Possession was not a part of the first-look, however the studio has seen Smile 2 and feels tremendously excessive on it.
Possession is meant to be Finn’s subsequent film. It would afford Finn a much bigger scale, however sources say he hopes to control an intimate story.
Finn is repped by CAA, Grandview and Jackoway Austen. Pattinson is repped by WME, 3 Arts Leisure and CurtisBrown Group.