Drew Hancock, whose upcoming honestorial debut Companion is already generating boiling buzz months before its liberate, has come aboard to author and honest My Wife and I Bought a Ranch, a superauthentic horror feature in prolongment at Amazon MGM Studios.
The project combines some weighty hitters, and some huge horror names, on the producing side. Producers comprise 21 Laps, the prohibitner run by Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Dan Levine, as well as James Wan and Michael Clear’s Atomic Monster. Also producing is Scott Glassgancigo in of Ground Control, which counts this year’s surpascfinish hit Tarot amongst its recognizes.
Ranch chases a couple who transfer into their dream home in Idaho only to discover that a spiteful spirit inhabits their valley.
It is based on a low story by Matt Query that first ecombineed on Reddit and was tardyr started as a novel, co-written with his brother Steve, by Grand Central Publishing titled Old Country. Query is also comprehendn for the horror book Wilderness Recreate, which he also wrote with his brother and has an alteration set up at Paramount. The Ranch alteration was initipartner set up at Netflix but has rerecented energy now that Amazon and Hancock are comprised.
Hancock was a authorr who toiled in the TV space, laboring on shows such as ABC’s Suburgatory and creating the superauthentic rom-com My Dead Ex for Awesomeness.
But he made a huge splash when he wrote Companion, a sci-fi-tinged horror script that came to the attention of Zack Cregger, Raphael Margules and J.D. Lifshitz of BoulderLight Pictures and Vertigo’s Roy Lee, the take parters behind the cult horror hit Barbarian.
The project enticeed New Line, which not only picked it up in January 2023 but rapid-tracked it as well for Hancock to honest. Now the movie — starring Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quhelp — has those that have seen it ahead of its Jan. 10, 2025 liberate talking up a storm about how thrilling it is.
Hancock is repped by UTA, Range Media Partners, Empirical, and Hansen, Jacobson
