Amazon Wins Auction For Thriller Short Story ‘The Dwelling;’ Michael B. Jordan & Outlier Society Producing & Aaron Guzikowski Scripting
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won a competitive auction and sealed a high-six figure outright purchase of The Dwelling, an unpublished short story by Aaron Jayh.
Michael B. Jordan and Liz Raposo’s Outlier Society are attached to produce. Jordan is potentially starring. Adapting the mind-bending story will be Aaron Guzikowski, the scribe best known for Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners and Apple TV’s Raised by Wolves.
Jordan and Raposo will produce with Ground Control’s Scott Glassgold. Several studios bid and put together talent alignments, but it came down to Amazon and Netflix, sources said.
The Dwelling tells the story of a newly divorced father who discovers a house buried in his backyard. He is a former all pro football player trying to ease into retirement, and the hits he took on the field starts to make him unsure what is real and imagined, as things begin to go awry.
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