Scott Derrickson, most recently the director of The Day The Earth Stood Still, has signed up to direct a supernatural suspense thriller called The Living for Lakeshore. The story, which is still under wraps, is based on a story that Derrickson pitched along with Paul Harris Boardman, his writing partner on The Exorcism of Emily Ros****e.
Now** Emily Rose** was an unusual and creepy little thriller, which bodes well for this one - but of course we don't know yet what this one is. So let's start the wild speculation: maybe the title means it's about ghosts being haunted by humans! Nope, that's been done. Hmm, suggestions below please: winner gets 1,000 Empire points*.
While it sounds like this might be Derrickson's next thriller, he's developing The Substitute for Ghosthouse Pictures, and is also in development on not one but two astonishingly ambitious projects: John Milton's Paradise Lost (about heaven and hell and everything in between) and Dan Simmon's excellent Hyperion (about, well, kinda the same, but in a far-off galactic future, and involving quite a few time threads and more than one plane of reality). After working on those, whatever The Living is it's going to feel like a sit-down and a nice cup of tea.
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