Deadline reports that Erin Moriarty (The Boys) and Jamie Campbell Bower (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) have signed on to star in director Gary Fleder‘s film True Haunting, based on a novel by Edwin F. Becker (pick up a copy HERE) – a novel that was based on the story of an actual haunting and exorcism, “the first ever filmed and televised by NBC in 1971.”
Richard D’Ovidio wrote the screenplay, which then received revisions from Blair Butler. The film will tell the following story:
When Ed and Marsha Becker purchased their first home, they soon discovered the dwelling was haunted by ghosts. Specifically, the sinister family who lived and died there before. Desperate for help, the Beckers sought out an exorcism. The first ever televised. Millions around the country tuned in. Although the broadcast was a success, the exorcism was not. Instead, it made things worse. Much worse…
True Haunting is coming to us from Screen Gems. Cindy Cowan is producing the film.
Moriarty’s other credits include The Watch, The Kings of Summer, True Detective, Jessica Jones, Captain Fantastic, Blood Father, and Monster Party. She also made an uncredited appearance in Kong: Skull Island. Bower was in three of the Twilight movies, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He’ll also be seen in the fourth season of Stranger Things.
As for Fleder, he has previously directed Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, Kiss the Girls, Don’t Say a Word, Impostor, Runaway Jury, The Express, and Homefront, among other credits. I’m a fan of several of those movies (Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead and Homefront especially), so I look forward to seeing what he’ll do with True Haunting.
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