Hammer Films Targets Next Spooky Thriller “Gaslight”

After recent and success with horror movie The Woman in Black, Exclusive Media’s genre studio Hammer, has picked up the rights to Gaslight, another very spooky thriller written by Ian Fried. The screenplay which was named in Hollywood’s notorious Black List, which compiles the best unproduced scripts of the year. The project is set to emerge and see the light of day as a tale involving Jack the Ripper in what could be a similar project to From Hell which starred Johnny Depp. The plot for Gaslight sees Jack the Ripper, having been secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum, is called upon to help Scotland yard solve a series of ghastly murders that leave the victim with two puncture marks to the neck, probably the biggest tell tale marks of all time in movie terms! Tom Armbrust will oversee the project; the company’s chief executive Jennifer Ruper was involved in getting the project on board. Gaslight is Ian Fried’s second script to get on the Black List. His previous effort, a dark fantasy The Ever After Murders, featuring fairy tale characters embroiled in a series of murders, made the list back in 2010. The writer is currently working on Spectral, which is mooted as an original supernatural action movie. Hammer’s Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe has already taken in over $21 million last weekend

Via THR