EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Melissa Leo, Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell are boarding André Øvredal’s untitled horror movie for Paramount and Walter Hamada’s 18hz.
Former Warner Bros production executive Walter Hamada is producing via his production company 18hz, as part of his first-look deal with Paramount, alongside It screenwriter Gary Dauberman via Coin Operated.
The screenplay written by Zachary Donohue and T.W. Burgess has a plot that’s, of course, under wraps. Hamada is also producing Primate, which is in post-production, at Paramount.
Leo won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the 2010 Paramount David O. Russell directed The Fighter. She’s starred in such movies as Frozen River on which she received an Oscar nom for Best Actress,and Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners, The Equalizer franchise, Oliver Stone’s Snowden, and the HBO series I Know This Much Is True.
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