‘When A Stranger Venmos’ Feature: How Far Would You Go For $10k?
Joe Russo (not that Joe Russo) and Chris LaMont have secured the rights to a viral short story from Holly Riordan and adapted a screenplay from it titled When a Stranger Venmos, reports Deadline.
Frank and Ivanna Borin are attached to direct the adaptation of the short story “A Complete Stranger Sent Me 10k On Venmo — But There Was A Catch”, which was published on the website Thought Catalog in 2022.
In the film, an assistant struggling to survive in Los Angeles is thrown a lifeline when a complete stranger offers her increasingly large sums of money to do stranger and stranger challenges. She must then decide just how far she’s willing to go to pay her bills.
The Borins have directed major projects for Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow, Zayn Malik, 5 Seconds of Summer, Tyga, and A$AP Ferg.
“We’ve been obsessed with When a Stranger Venmos from the moment we read it,” said Frank and Ivanna Borin. “We were pulled in by how this horror thriller takes the anxiety of modern-day survival in today’s America and turns it into something sharp, fast, and terrifying. It’s the kind of story that speaks directly to what young people are feeling right now and that’s the secret weapon of the genre.”
As a producer, Russo’s feature credits include the Mickey Rourke-starring horror anthology Nightmare Cinema and the Zac Efron and Russell Crowe-starring The Greatest Beer Run Ever. In the podcast space, he produced seven seasons of Dread Central’s award-winning horror series Post Mortem with Mick Garris(!), featuring over 100 in-depth conversations with genre legends like Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, John Carpenter, Guillermo del Toro, James Wan, Edgar Wright and more. Russo and LaMont are represented by Untitled, Fictional Entity, and Yorn Levine.
Matt Smith and Dan Gedman are also set to produce via Highway 10.
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