Javier Gullón Adapting Clarence Hammond’s Horror Short Story ‘Final Boarding’ For Screen Gems
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Spanish screenwriter Javier Gullón has been tapped to adapt Final Boarding, a horror film for Sony’s Screem Gems, based on a short story by Clarence Hammond.
Plot details for the film are under wraps. Ashley Brucks optioned the story when she started as President of Screen Gems in the fall of 2023.
Exec-turned-producer Hammond will produce alongside Brucks, his former colleague at Paramount Players. This marks the second studio horror project that Gullón has lined up recently, following his pitch sale of the Sarah Pinsker novella Two Truths and a Lie to Walter Hamada’s 18hz and Paramount.
Prior to that, Gullón’s hot thriller spec The Bet sold preemptively to Warner Bros with 42 producing. Establishing himself recently as one of the industry’s most sought-after writers of elevated horror, Gullón most famously wrote Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy, an A24 psychological thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
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