If Chad and Carey Hayes‘ promising pitch to be turned into a script and then handed off to a filmmaker revisits 1970’s Rhode Island and does its best to include elements such as brown carpeting, sideburns and corduroy pants, then I’m sure those who look back at original The Amityville Horror with admiration will look forward to getting the beejeebus with Conjuring. According to Variety, the thriller pitch underwent a strong bidding war with Summit Ent. coming out on top.
Picked up for a mid- against high-six figures the scribes behind Whiteout have inserted the life rights of the Perron family and Ed and Lorraine Warren (see pic) – the victims and the ghost chasing experts in paranormal activities who investigated and battled the activities occurring in the Perron household and did the same in the cases that inspired Amityville and The Haunting in Connecticut.
Safran Co.’s Peter Safran who is currently working on Gonzalo López-Gallego’s Solowill produce with Evergreen Media’s Tony DeRosa-Grund. The Hayes have previously penned House of Wax, The Reaping and the soon to be released Whiteout.
