Scott Derrickson, director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and The Day The Earth Stood Still, has signed up with Lakeshore Entertainment to helm the supernatural suspense thriller, The Living. The new movie will be based on an idea by Derrickson and his Emily Rose co-writer/producer, Paul Harris Boardman.
So what was their idea? Umm, don’t know, because the studio is keeping the plot under wraps, and with a title like The Living, it could be about pretty much anything, although it does pretty ghostly if you ask us.
Quite where The Living fits in the ever-growing line-up of movies Derrickson is planning to direct is a bit difficult to say. He’s also recently signed up for a remake of the Danish family thriller, The Substitute, about a class of kids who realise their new teacher is actually an evil alien. That movie is being made through Sam Raimi’s new Ghost House subsidiary, Spooky Pictures. Derrickson is also in the early stages of developing a hideously ambitious film version of Milton’s Paradise Lost, as well as an adaptation of Dan Simmon’s massive sci-fi opus, Hyperion.
He’s certainly going to be a busy boy, although let’s hope he makes a few more films that are as interesting as Emily Rose, and not ones that are as godawful as The Day the Earth Stood Still.