‘The Strangers’ Remake Starring Madelaine Petsch In Works At Lionsgate – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale), Froy Gutierrez (Merciless Summer season) and Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy) have been tapped to star in a Lionsgate remake of the 2008 horror The Strangers, which has entered manufacturing in Slovakia. Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger) is directing the movie, eyed as the primary in a trilogy, having locked in a deal to helm the following pair.

The unique movie The Strangers was a house invasion pic, which Bryan Bertino wrote and directed in his characteristic debut, with Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman starring. It registered as a sleeper stumble on its Could 2008 launch through Common Photos and got here to be appreciated within the years following as a cult basic, with the sequel The Strangers: Prey at Night time being launched in March of 2018.

The brand new Strangers movie will comply with Petsch’s character as she drives cross-country along with her longtime boyfriend (Gutierrez) to start a brand new life within the Pacific Northwest. When their automobile breaks down in Venus, Oregon, they’re compelled to spend the night time in a secluded Airbnb, the place they’re terrorized from nightfall until daybreak by three masked strangers. Lionsgate plans from there to increasing the story in new and sudden methods with its sequels.

Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland (The Freak Brothers, Due Date) wrote the potential franchise launcher, to be distributed worldwide by Lionsgate. Courtney Solomon (Cake, After movie franchise) is producing alongside Mark Canton (Energy Universe, 300), Christopher Milburn (The Protégé, Unhinged), Gary Raskin (Halfway), Charlie Dombeck (The Struggle with Grandpa) and Alastair Birlingham (Moonfall). Andrei Boncea, Dorothy Canton, and Roy Lee are exec producing, with Rafaella Biscayn, the Slovakia-based Body Movie SK, Johanna Harlin, Juan Garcia Peredo and Alberto Burgueno serving as co-producers.

“My mom instilled the love of films in me via the world of Hitchcock and different masters of suspense and horror. My breakthrough to Hollywood occurred with the success of A Nightmare on Elm Avenue 4,” famous Renny Harlin. “It’s only becoming that I get to return to my favourite style with the extremely effectively written trilogy of The Strangers. The characters and the storyline are all grounded in actuality and supply me an limitless tapestry of haunting visuals in bringing these films alive.”

“When getting down to remake The Strangers, we felt there was an even bigger story to be advised, which may very well be as highly effective, chilling, and terrifying as the unique and will actually broaden that world,” stated Solomon. “Capturing this story as a trilogy permits us to create a hyperreal and terrifying character examine. We’re lucky to be becoming a member of forces with Madelaine Petsch, a tremendous expertise whose character is the driving power of this story.”

“Whenever you’ve received two horror aficionados like Courtney Solomon and Renny Harlin coming collectively, you’ve received all it’s essential to create some extremely sensible, lean-forward-in-your-seat, addictively thrilling leisure,” remarked Mark Canton. “Followers of the unique movie might be blown away; new audiences will uncover the intensely unnerving world of The Strangers.”

“The Strangers faucets into such primal fears that it’s going to at all times be related,” added Lionsgate’s EVP of Acquisitions & Co-Productions, Eda Kowan. “However what really units this challenge aside is the best way the filmmakers have expanded the story and given these characters a brand new life.”

Petsch stars as Cheryl Blossom on The CW’s Riverdale and can even at the moment be seen within the rom-com About Destiny, from United Artists Releasing. Extra movie credit embody Jane, Sightless and Polaroid.

Gutierrez performs Jamie Henson on the Freeform collection Merciless Summer season, which has been renewed for a second season, and has additionally been seen on reveals like Mild as a Feather, Teen Wolf and One Day at a Time. Additionally arising for the actor is the lengthy anticipated Hocus Pocus 2, which is slated for launch on Disney+ on September thirtieth.

Basso lately led Ron Howard’s drama Hillbilly Elegy and has additionally been seen in movies like The Kings of Summer season and Tremendous 8, amongst others. He’s in any other case greatest recognized for his function as Adam — the son of Laura Linney’s Cathy — on Showtime’s collection The Large C. The actor will subsequent be seen in Mouly Surya’s action-thriller Set off Warning and the Netflix collection, The Night time Agent.

Harlin is a author, director and producer who has most lately helmed options together with Class Reunion 3, The Misfits, Our bodies at Relaxation, Legend of the Historical Sword, Skiptrace and The Legend of Hercules. Different notable directing credit embody 12 Rounds, Cleaner, The Covenant, Exorcist: The Starting, Mindhunters, Pushed, Cutthroat Island, Cliffhanger, Die Exhausting 2 and A Nightmare on Elm Avenue 4: The Dream Grasp. Extra upcoming tasks for the multi-hyphenate embody the horror pic The Refuge and the action-thriller, The Bricklayer.

Petsch is represented by CAA, Mosaic and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Gutierrez by CAA, GTC Artists and Untitled Leisure; Basso by WME, Sugar23 and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; Renny Harlin by UTA and McPherson Rane; and Cohen and Freedland by Gersh.