Michael Patrick Jann To Direct Western Horror Film ‘Organ Trail’ For Paramount Pictures; Olivia Applegate, Clé Bennett, Sam Trammell & More To Star
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Michael Patrick Jann has been tapped to direct the Western horror film Organ Trail for Paramount Pictures, with Olivia Applegate (Love and Death), Clé Bennett (The Man in the High Castle), Zoé De Grand Maison (Riverdale), Nicholas Logan (Dopesick), Sam Trammell (True Blood) and Jessica Frances Dukes (Ozark) signing on to star.The film written by Meg Turner finds a young Abigale Archer friendless and alone in a brutal Montana winter during the 1870s—fighting for survival and to retrieve her one earthly possession, her family’s horse, from a gang of bloodthirsty bandits.
Jann will produce alongside David Codron.Jann is a writer, director and producer who began his career as a member of the sketch comedy group The State, then co-creating the MTV show of the same name.
He served as an executive producer and director for the series Reno 911!, also exec producing Flight of the Conchords and Little Britain for HBO, and directing episodes of Wayne for Amazon and Daybreak for Netflix.
Jann is best known on the film side for directing the cult-classic beauty mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous.Applegate will next be seen in the HBO Max miniseries Love and Death.
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