Last month, it was officially announced that actor Glen Powell’s production company Barnstorm is teaming up with Spooky Pictures, Image Nation, Exurbia Films, and A24 to produce a Texas Chainsaw Massacre TV series that will be directed by JT Mollner (Strange Darling). Now, Deadline reports that Lionsgate has acquired the survival horror thriller project The Death Roll, which has Barnstorm attached to produce alongside Chasing Epic Pictures.
Writers
The spec script that launched The Death Roll was written by Kas Graham and Rebecca Pollock, who previously wrote the Kate Beckinsale / Scott Eastwood rescue thriller Stolen Girl. Deadline notes that Graham and Pollock have also been developing a Betty Ford movie for Netflix that has Sarah Paulson attached to star and Ryan Murphy attached to direct. Their feature May Savidge Moves Her House is set up with Pathè with Helena Bonham Carter starring, and their suffragist home invasion film Suffer has Tina Gharavi directing.
They were also producers on Apple TV’s Lessons in Chemistry and adapted the Diane Ducret novel La Dictatrice as a series for FX. They’re currently developing Young Agatha for Wiip, and have other projects set up with Monumental Pictures, Universal, A&E, and Apple France. They stay busy.
The story they crafted for The Death Roll follows a couple whose dream vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter the unexpected: an invasive 15-foot saltwater crocodile.
Producers
Glen Powell and Dan Cohen will be producing the film for Barnstorm, while Bryan Haas does the same for Chasing Epic Pictures. Haas has also been working with Graham and Pollock on their Betty Ford project.
Barnstorm’s Ryan Schwartz will serve as an executive producer. Chelsea Kujawa and Maria Ascanio are overseeing the project for Lionsgate.
Killer crocodile movies always sound like a good idea to me. They don’t always end up being very good, but I’m glad to keep giving new ones a chance, so I look forward to seeing how The Death Roll is going to turn out.
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