EXCLUSIVE: Universal has pre-emptively bought the brief story thriller package deal Don’t Look, with Janelle Monae (Glass Onion, Moonlight, Hidden Figures) in talks to star.
Akela Cooper (M3GAN, Malignant, The Nun 2) is ready to adapt the screenplay based mostly on Colin Bannon’s (Ultra, First Ascent) brief story.
Monae is in talks to provide by means of her Wondaland Pictures’ first look take care of Universal Pictures, together with Scott Glassgold’s Ground Control. They are conserving the logline below wraps, based mostly on Bannon’s unpublished brief story.
Bannon is contemporary from making a Universal deal for his horror brief story Long Lost, produced by Steven Spielberg, Simon Kinberg, and Glassgold. Glassgold and Cooper teamed on the brief story sale It’s Over to Sony Pictures, with Glassgold and Roy Lee producing.
The brief story deal brokering was led by Verve, its second of the day in a turbulent week after the Sony deal for Cola Wars.
Monae is repped by WME, Mikael Moore and Kelli Andrews at Wondaland Management, Ben Rubinfeld at Ziffren Brittenham, and Matthew Johnson at Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
While she has been very busy on the massive display, Cooper’s TV credit embrace the Netflix sequence Luke Cage, American Horror Story and Paramount + Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Cooper is repped by CAA, Dan McManus at Rise Management, and Gregg Gellman at Morris Yorn.
Bannon holds the Black List for having landed a file seven scripts on the List and he has offered the specs Ultra to Tri-Star Pictures and First Ascent to Netflix. Bannon and Ground Control are repped by Verve.
Universal’s Senior Vice President of Production Development Ryan Jones and Director of Development Tony Ducret will oversee the undertaking on behalf of the Studio.
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