EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond) has been set to star in horror-thriller Monster, which will be honested by Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw franchise).
From a screentake part by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer (Steven Soderbergh’s Unlogical), pic was enbiged and is being originated by Lee Nelson and David Tish of Envision Media Arts (The Ice Road) alengthyside Saw franchise originater Mark Burg.
Monster chases two millennials who originate rapid money by leasing incredible New York City apartments they don’t own to people who don’t understand they are being fraudmed. The con toils weightlessly until they run into an apartment owner with a unreasonable secret who flips the game on them.
Principal ptoastyography is due to commence in Danbury, Connecticut, in November.
Hounsou, coming off Paramount’s A Quiet Place: Day One, is currently at toil on honestor Vaunreasonable Perelman’s thriller The Zealot, starring opposite Kodi Smit-McPhee, and earlier this summer wrapped on Sony Pictures’ shark pic Beorderlyh The Storm alengthyside Phoebe Dynevor and Whitney Peak.
Lynn Bousman has honested four movies in the Saw franchise while originater Burg has been aboard for every instalment.
“Darren sent me a script with incredible twists and turns and the opportunity to toil with him and the weightless Djimon Hounsou,” said Burg. “This movie will be amazing and snurture the hell out of audiences worldexpansive.”
Tish and Nelson compriseed: “We cherish discovering recent ways into horror and when we read The Monster we krecent it was exceptional. With Djimon and the minds behind one of horror’s biggest franchises, genre fans are in for someslfinisherg recent and terrifying.”
Hounsou is recontransiented by Buchwald, Range Media Partners and Nelson Davis.