New Line Wins Auction For Victor Sweetser Horror Short Story ‘Occupant’ In Outright Buy; 9 Bids
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: A highly competitive bidding war ended with New Line Cinema paying high six-figures in an outright buy for Victor Sweetser’s hot horror short story, Occupant.
Barbarian’s Zach Creggers, Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Ground Control’s Scott Glassgold are on board to produce alongside, John Poliquin.
Deadline revealed the auction as it was heating up today. It is a testament to the power of genre IP. With the story only on the market for less than 24 hours, a tremendous amount of interest was generated around town for what is being described as the reinvention of the haunted house movie.
The story attracted all sorts of suitors and quickly the team of Lee and Creggers (Barbarian) coalesced with Glassgold who originated the project with the author and Poliquin.
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