Actor Russell Brand certainly seems to want to make a spooky tale. Last year he signed onto and then left an adaptation of Brit TV show Rentaghost and now he has joined the supernatural tale The Hauntrepreneur for Paramount Pictures, according to Variety. We first reported on this project back in May, when Paramount and Platinum Dunes boarded the project.
The slightly Beetlejuice-esque movie is about a family who move to a new town but can’t quite adjust to their surroundings. They hire a man known as the The Hauntrepreneur (Russell Brand), who builds them a haunted house full of bizarre characters, which helps bring the family closer together.
With Brand onboard, the studio is looking to lock down a director next. It isn’t known when the movie might shoot.