'Come Closer' Please!
From variety.com
Come Closer, an adaptation of what critics claim to be 2003?s ?scariest? novel written by Sara Gran, is being produced for the big screen. Miramax has commissioned fashion photographer Carter Smith (The Ruins) to direct and Tristine Sklyer (The Bell Jar) to pen the screenplay. The story centers on a woman who is either losing her mind or possessed by some unseen force. The Film is set to go into production some time early next year.
According to Variety, Come Closer has a complicated history. It was originally developed as more of a straight thriller at Dimension when the Weinsteins were still at Miramax, with Wings of the Dove scribe Hossein Amini penning the screenplay.
But the project went on the backburner after the Weinsteins split from the Disney fold. Amini, who had written a draft, then moved on to other projects.
Miramax exec David Greenbaum revived it, however, after seeing Smith's acclaimed short Bugcrush and deciding the young director would be a good fit for the material. He then signed him to helm a more literary adaptation. Smith is directing DreamWorks' The Ruins, which Ben Stiller's Red Hour shingle is producing.
Skyler is a playwright who was attached last week to adapt The Bell Jar as a Julia Stiles vehicle.
Gran is a genre fiction writer who last year published the noir Dope. Come Closer was named by several publication as the scariest novel of the year when it came out in 2003.
