Signature Picks Up Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Flight 298’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up UK and Irish rights to the Steven Quale (Final Destination 5) directed sci-fi thriller Flight 298 from Capstone Global.
Directed by Quale from a screenplay by Stephen Susco (The Grudge), the feature is produced by Alex Lebovici (Barbarian) and Jon Oakes (The Guilty) of Hammerstone Studios alongside Capstone Global’s Christian Mercuri and David Haring (Bill and Ted Face the Music), Warren Zide (The Final Destination) and Susco.
Flight 298 follows supernatural events occurring on Vero Airlines Flight 298 as it makes its voyage from New Orleans to Seattle.
The deal was negotiated between Signature Entertainment CEO Marc Goldberg and Capstone Global CEO Christian Mercuri. Signature’s Chief Commercial Officer Elizabeth Williams said: “Steve Quale and Stephen Susco’s combined experience across established genre franchises alongside Flight 298’s impressive genre-bending of disaster thriller and sci-fi horror made it a clear and appealing proposition for us at Signature.
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