Netflix Snaps Up Ben Ketai’s Erotic Thriller Spec ‘Undying’, 21 Laps To Produce
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: In one of the first big spec sales following the resolution of the WGA strike, Ben Ketai‘s script Undying has sold to Netflix for development under its first-look feature deal with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps.
Deadline hears that the deal was for mid-six against seven figures. 21 Laps brought the project in to Netflix, and Levy, Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine are set to produce for the company, with Moera Ainai overseeing.
Ketai will serve as executive producer. Netflix declined comment. Described as an erotic thriller with a supernatural twist, Undying follows a woman, suffocated by motherhood, who has an affair with a man she hasn’t seen since high school… only to discover he has been dead for years.
Prior to the sale, Ketai had most recently wrote and directed River Wild, a reimagining of Uni’s same-name 1994 thriller. Starring Leighton Meester, Taran Killam and Adam Brody, the film spent a number of weeks in Netflix’s Top 10 when it made its way to the streamer.
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