A single short story from Ian Rogers’ 2012 collection is being adapted as a feature produced by Sam Raimi, with Adam Schindler and Brian Netto directing after a multi-year stop at Netflix.
That is Every House Is Haunted, the Sam Raimi -produced ghost story that 20th Century Studios has bought out of Netflix, where the script had been sitting since 2021.
The pair made Don't Move, the survival thriller that left Kelsey Asbille on a forest floor with a paralytic working through her bloodstream while Finn Wittrock waited for it to finish, which Netflix put out...
'Every House Is Haunted' Leaves Netflix for 20th Century.
# What changed
# Who's on the project now The film will be directed by Adam Schindler and Brian Netto, the duo behind the 2024 thriller Don't Move. They replace Corin Hardy, who had been attached to direct since 2021. Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi are producing for Raimi Productions. Roy Lee is producing for Vertigo Entertainment, and Andrew Childs is listed as a producer. Ian Rogers, author of the source material, is credited as an executive producer.
# Source material and title
# Story premise (as described in reporting) The central narrative follows an insurance investigator who aims to prove a couple's deaths were not caused by a haunted house. As the investigation proceeds, he encounters a psychic and starts witnessing unexplained phenomena himself.
# Creative history and team connections Schindler, Netto, and Raimi have collaborated before: Schindler and Netto directed episodes of Raimi's Quibi anthology 50 States of Fright, and Raimi produced Don't Move alongside Zainab Azizi. Netto and Schindler previously worked together on smaller projects, including the found-footage film Delivery: The Beast Within (2013), which they wrote together.
# Production context The screenplay credited with getting this project moving was written by Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman. Starlight's option of the full short-story collection and its Raimi financing deal explain why the film uses the collection's title even though it adapts a single entry.
# Related studio activity 20th Century Studios picked up another Raimi-produced project, 99 Nights in the Forest, earlier in September. That project also lists Raimi and Azizi among producers, showing multiple collaborations between the producer and the studio in a short span.
# What we don't know yet
# Why this matters for horror audiences
# Bottom line A script that had been with Netflix since 2021 now has a studio home at 20th Century. The film adapts an Ian Rogers short story, is produced by Sam Raimi, directed by Adam Schindler and Brian Netto, and remains without announced cast or release date.
20th Century Studio has bought ghost story script 'Every House Is Haunted' from Netflix, to be directed by the duo behind 'Don't Move'.
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