Best known for playing Peter Parker’s best friend Ned in the recent Spider-Man movies (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far from Home, and Spider-Man: No Way Home, with appearances in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame), Jacob Batalon will soon be in the Syfy / Hulu / Amazon series Reginald the Vampire – and Deadline reports he’s following that up with another genre project, the Screen Gems horror movie Horrorscope.
This Horrorscope has no connection to the Robert Englund movie 976-Evil, which also dealt with something called Horrorscope. Instead, it’s based on a 1992 novel by Nicholas Adams. Anna Halberg and Spenser Cohen have written the screenplay adaptation and will also be making their feature directorial debut with Horrorscope, which will follow
a group of college friends who after getting their horoscopes read, begin dying in ways connected to their fortunes. Are their fates fatal or can they change what’s written in the stars?
Batalon is joined in the cast by Alana Boden (I Am Elizabeth Smart), Adain Bradley (Wrong Turn: The Foundation), Avantika (Senior Year), Humberly González (Ginny & Georgia), and Wolfgang Novogratz (The Last Summer).
Coming to us from Screen Gems and Alloy Entertainment, Horrorscope is being produced by Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton, along with Scott Glassgold of Ground Control. Cohen and Halberg serve as executive producers. Scott Strauss, Michael Bitar, and Lariah Perara are overseeing the project for Screen Gems.
Cohen previously contributed to the screenplays for Extinction, Moonfall, and the upcoming The Expendables 4. With Halberg, he has written the upcoming movie Ivy and the podcast series Classified.
Horrorscope is expected to start filming this fall. The movie sounds to me like it could be entertaining, sort of along the lines of Final Destination, so I look forward to seeing how it’s going to turn out. How does Horrorscope sound to you? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below.