EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive bidding war, Universal Pictures has landed the rights to Marcus Kliewer’s short story The Caretaker with Sydney Sweeney attached to star and produce.
Michael Bay and Brad Fuller will also produce through their Platinum Dunes banner along with Scott Glassgold through his Ground Control banner.
Sweeney is producing through her Fifty-Fifty Films banner with her partner Jonathan Davino. Karl Gajdusek is adapting the script.
The package came together once word got out that like his previous short story, We Use to Live Here, The Caretaker drop on Reddit.
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