Sweet Tooth
While Andrés Muschietti’sITkeeps breaking box federal agency records , New Line Cinema is preparing a new horror film by adapting the Dutch horror shortSweet Toothinto a feature flick . It ’s not uncommon for great studios to assume the rights of acclaimed short circuit - films to bring out their feature adjustment – as was recently examine withLights Out .
Horror classic such as Sam Raimi’sThe Evil Dead , Fred Walton’sWhen a Stranger Calls , James Wan’sSawfranchise , and most latterly Jennifer Kent ’s critically acclaimedThe Babadook , had their beginnings as shortstop - film and eventually became feature films .
harmonise toTHR , New Line has acquired the rights to Nico van den Brink ’s shortSweet Tooth , which premiere at Montreal ’s Fantasia International Film Festival back in July . Fantasia is an one-year literary genre film festival where distributors can set their eyes on extraneous and domestic films for release across North America . Sweet Tooth – which is only five minute long – postdate a woman who , after occur home and watching the news , discovers that her neighbor ( a mother and her two kids ) have been murdered . thing get twisted and creepy when she pick up children ’s laughter .
Van hideaway Brink , writer and conductor of the short , will direct the feature , with Wan and Chris Bender ( The Butterfly Effect ) in charge of bring on . New Line Cinema will take a author to dilate the story into a feature , with van den Brink getting a narration by credit .
away from co - creating theSawfranchise along screenwriter Leigh Whannell , Wan has give himself as a self-aggrandising name in the repugnance genre , organize film likeInsidious , The invocation , and producing the spinoffsAnnabelle , Annabelle : Creation , andThe Nun . Among his most recent work – and outside the repulsion genre – is DC’sAquaman , where he serve as film director and co - author . Chris Bender ’s producer credits admit films from different genres , such asAmerican Pie , Cats & Dogs , Final Destination , andThe Hangovertrilogy .
Sweet Toothhas sure as shooting fallen into the right-hand hand , as Wan has prove to be able-bodied to successfully build a franchise out of a scant - film . New Line has been quite prosperous with its horror films in the last few days , with film such asThe Conjuring(and its spinoffs ) and currentlyIT , which is expect to keep on breaking records for weeks to make out .
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Source : THR
