EXCLUSIVE: Universal has pre-emptively purchased the short story thriller package Don’t Look, with Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion, Moonlight, Hidden Figures) in talks to star.
Akela Cooper (M3GAN, Malignant, The Nun 2) is set to adapt the screenplay based on the short story by Colin Bannon (Ultra, First Ascent).
Monáe is in talks to produce through her Wondaland Pictures’ first-look deal with Universal Pictures, along with Scott Glassgold’s Ground Control.
They are keeping the logline under wraps, based on Bannon’s unpublished short story. Bannon is fresh from making a Universal deal for his horror short story Long Lost, produced by Steven Spielberg, Simon Kinberg and Glassgold.
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