Troy Kotsur To Lead Cast Of Johannes Roberts Horror Feature ‘Primate’ From Walter Hamada
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has greenlit the Johannes Roberts horror film, Primate, with Academy Award winner Troy Kotsur (CODA) set to lead the cast.
Roberts will direct the Walter Hamada-produced feature which Roberts co-wrote with Ernest Riera. Plot details are being kept under wraps.
The project falls under Hamada’s exclusive first-look deal with Paramount which began on January 1, 2023, making him “the architect of Paramount’s mainstream horror genre pod, with the mission to release several low- to mid-budget films per year across theatrical and streaming.” The former DC Films boss steered DC to its highest-grossing movie Aquaman with $1.1 billion worldwide.
He was also behind The Conjuring franchise, the highest-grossing horror series ever with more than $2 billion in global box office, 2017’s It and Matt Reeves’ The Batman, to name a few.
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