STX Says Hello to Doug Jones and The Bye Bye Man
Steve Barton
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We’ve been talking about The Bye Bye Man for several weeks around here, and finally some good news has crept out of AFM. Deadline is reporting that STX Entertainment just added another project to its slate — the horror film The Bye Bye Man, which is based on the short story “The Bridge to Body Island” by Robert Damon Schneck.
The project is being directed by Stacy Title (The Last Supper). STX will be co-financing, marketing, and distributing on a worldwide basis. The Los Angeles Media Fund is also co-financing and is co‐producing with Intrepid Pictures. The budget is said to be around $6M.
Although the story is said to be “under wraps,” the site goes on to say that it tells the tale of a man who wants to prove his brother innocent from the crimes of a supernatural murder. Schneck’s story originally appeared in the anthology The President’s Vampire: Strange-but-True Tales of the United States of America and centered on odd things that happened after three college students were playing with a Oujia board and a spirit won’t leave.
Jonathan Penner and David Prior adapted the book for the screen. Starring in the film are Douglas Smith (Pan’s Labyrinth), Cressida Bonas (Tulip Fever), Lucien Laviscount (“Scream Queens”), and Doug Jones (Ouija). Producing are Intrepid’s Trevor Macy and LAMF’s Simon Horsman and Jeffrey Soros with Melinda Nishioka co-producing.
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