Zach Cregger Sets ‘Companion’ As Second New Line Film, Will Produce Horror-Thriller From Drew Hancock
deadline.comHot genre filmmaker Zach Cregger and his Barbarian collaborators have sold yet another mysterious feature project to New Line, following the auction of their horror, Weapons.
The project is Companion — a horror-thriller marking the directorial debut of Drew Hancock, who also penned the script. Plot details are under wraps.
But like Weapons, Companion is being fast tracked for production this year. Producers are BoulderLight’s Raphael Margules and J.D.
Lifshitz, Vertigo’s Roy Lee, and Cregger. BoulderLight’s Tracy Rosenblum and Vertigo’s Andrew Childs will exec produce. Cregger and his partners at BoulderLight and Vertigo had one of the hottest horror features of 2022 in Barbarian, starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård and Justin Long, which hit theaters via 20th in September after world premiering at Comic-Con and grossed around $45MM against a production budget of $4.5MM.
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