I include myself among those who was impressed by his dark, direct blow to the role of religion and the church in The King (a show of hands for those who feel the same). Now Marsh is going after the top dogs of the Catholic Church with The Vatican Tapes. Reading some of the Telluride coverage, I was under the impression that James Marsh’ re-introduction to fiction (Red Riding: 1980) form didn’t go as well as the tons of accolades he received for perhaps the most well-liked doc film in the past decade (Man on Wire). Red Riding was shown to the Brits on the tele. Marsh takes on the supernatural thriller genre for Lionsgate and Lakeshore.
Scripted by Chris Borrelli (Whisper), the story centers on a series of events that unfold after a tape gets leaked from the Vatican displaying an exorcism that goes wrong. Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Chris Cowles and Morgan are producing. Borrelli and Chris Fenton are executive producing.
