The Bringing Gets Brought a Production Snag
Steve Barton
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The film with quite possibly one of the worst titles in the history of bad titles, The Bringing, has hit a bump on its way to production. THR is reporting that Sony Pictures will not bring us The Bringing.
The studio has decided to not move ahead with the project, which has Michael Pena attached to star.
But for those involved with the project, the loss will be short-lived as already multiple suitors are lining up, among them Lionsgate, New Line, Paramount, and STX Entertainment. A start date will be part of the discussion as Pena has a window to make the film.
Jeremy Lovering (“Sherlock”) is no longer on board to direct. Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, the duo behind the 2014 horror thriller Starry Eyes and who did a recent rewrite on the script, are now poised to take over.
The project is inspired by a woman named Elisa Lam, who was found dead in 2013 in a water tank on the roof of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles — but not before the security camera in the elevator recorded her behaving oddly. The footage later went viral.
The script centers on a man (Pena) who is investigating a woman’s death, set in the notorious and infamous Cecil Hotel.
Lam, who was only 21, was last seen at the Cecil Hotel on January 31, 2013, according to L.A. police. Her parents had reported her missing, and her body was discovered, nude and floating in the water tower of the hotel (a drinking source for residents), where she apparently was for two weeks.
Lam’s final moments were caught on the elevator security camera of the hotel. The footage you see below was taken moments before her death. In it you’ll see Lam acting very strangely. She appears to be running from or hiding from someone… or something. Most perplexing about the video is that the door stays open the entire time, nearly four minutes.
A maintenance worker discovered the body while looking into complaints about the water pressure in the building. Guests had been drinking and bathing with water contaminated by a body that had been decomposing for nearly two weeks. So how did she get there? The water tower on top of the building was 15 feet high and locked. To gain access to said tower, Lam would have had to have passed silently through two locked and alarmed doors first. Apparently she did so. All doors were still locked. No alarms were ever tripped. There are 100’s of stories about this on the internet reported by every reputable news agency that there is. Some people say she was possessed or attacked by a ghost. If this is the case, then this is the only known footage of such an occurrence.
In the end her death was ruled as “accidental.”
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