Recent off the success of “Backrooms,” Hollywood has discovered its subsequent Gen Z phenomenon to deliver to screens. Warner Bros. has received a bidding conflict for the rights to “Siren Head.” And no, the identify doesn’t lie. Created by artist Trevor Henderson, this internet-fueled city legend follows a mysterious predator who has two sirens for a head, in addition to an extended skinny body.
Now, it is going to be the premise for a film from Brian Duffield, who will direct from a screenplay he’ll write with Zach Cregger. Duffield’s credit embrace the sci-fi horror movie “No One Will Save You” and the upcoming survival thriller “Whalefall,” an adaptation of a bestseller a few scuba diver who will get trapped within the stomach of a whale. The film opens within the fall. Josh Brolin and Austin Abrams star.
Cregger is without doubt one of the hottest inventive forces in Hollywood proper now, having written and directed final summer season’s breakout hit, “Weapons,” which went on to win an Oscar for Amy Madigan. He additionally wrote and directed the well-received horror movie “Barbarians.” Subsequent up for Cregger is a reboot of “Resident Evil,” which hits theaters in September and likewise stars Abrams.
The transfer comes as Hollywood is on the hunt for IP to draw a rising youthful viewers to theaters. “Backrooms,” which began as a YouTube sensation, grew to become a success film for A24 when it was dropped at screens by its 20-year-old director Kane Parsons. Then there’s “Obsession,” one other current horror hit that was created by 26-year-old Curry Barker, who additionally bought his begin on YouTube. Latest research have proven that Gen Z has develop into Hollywood’s most constant viewers, visiting cinemas extra regularly that their millennial cohorts and much outpacing Gen Xers and child boomers by way of attendence.
Cregger, Duffield, Roy Lee, Andrew Childs, and Scott Glassgold are producing “Siren Head.” Henderson will govt produce the venture.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the information that Warner Bros. had received the rights to “Siren Head.”
