Scott Derrickson to Remake Classic Noir The Night of the Hunter

Scott Derrickson, supervisor of “The Black Phone” and “Doctor Strange,” will certainly team with his creating companion Robert Cargill to adjust Davis Grubb’s thriller book “The Night of the Hunter,” which was formerly made right into one of the all-time classic movie noirs in 1955 by Charles Laughton.

“The Night of the Hunter” adheres to the amoral, homicidal outlaw Harry Powell, that disguises himself as a jail pastor and murders the widow of his dead cellmate in an initiative to locate the cash he concealed from their last break-in. The widow’s youngsters, John and Pearl, that recognize where the cash is concealed, take place the run as Harry swears to search them down.

Derrickson and Cargill will certainly co-write the movie script. Peter Gethers will certainly create via his KramMar Delicious Enigma Productions, and Amy Pascal will certainly create via her Pascal Photo first-look take care of Universal Photo.

Going far on their own in Hollywood via scary, Derrickson and Cargill obtained their initial huge preference of hit filmmaking with the 2016 Wonder movie “Doctor Strange.” After leaving the movie’s follow up due to imaginative distinctions, the duo came to Universal with the 2021 movie “The Black Phone,” which was an essential and industrial low-budget scary struck with $161 million made at the worldwide ticket office.

Derrickson and Cargill have actually additionally joined to route a follow up to “The Black Phone,” which they will certainly start advancement on after conclusion of the Apple television+ activity movie “The Gorge” starring Miles Cashier and Anya Taylor-Joy, which is presently in post-production.

Cargill and Derrickson are stood for by WME and Brillstein Enjoyment Allies. The Davis Grubb Estate is stood for by Murray Weiss of Driver Literary Monitoring.