Michael Shanks, the filmmaker behind final yr’s cult horror fave Together, has teamed up with Adam McKay, the multi-faceted writer-director-producer behind films similar to Vice and Don’t Look Up, for a thriller undertaking.
Sony Pictures has picked up an untitled sci-fi comedy that will likely be written by Shanks that has McKay hooked up to direct.
McKay is producing the function with Todd Schulman through the duo’s Hyperobject Industries banner.
Andrew Mittman, who is among the government producers on Wednesday and concerned within the improvement of Tim Burton’s remake of B-movie basic Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, can be producing through his 1.21 Pictures. The firm’s Kai Dolbashian will exec produce. The two labored in the identical capability with Shanks on Together.
Details on the undertaking are being stored underneath wraps however it’s described as a sci-fi comedy.
Shanks received his begin making YouTube and on-line shorts earlier than making his function directorial debut with Together, the distinctive physique horror that starred Dave Franco and Alison Brie. The film premiered on the 2025 version of the Sundance Film Festival the place it sparked a bidding conflict, with Neon finally choosing it up in a $17 million deal.
His subsequent movie is because of be a function undertaking titled Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, a mind-bending sci-fi thriller arrange at A24 and whose script, which he wrote, was on the 2021 Black List. The undertaking was the primary group up for the writer-director with McKay and Schulman, who’re amongst these producing Hotel.
McKay, whose movies run the style gamut from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Talladega Nights to The Big Short and Vice to episodes of Succession and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. He final directed 2021’s Don’t Look Up, a satire with an A-list forged that turned certainly one of Netflix’s most watched films.
Hyperobject stays a busy banner. Among its upcoming initiatives is a mini-series centered on Jeffey Epstein, primarily based on the e book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by Julie Okay. Brown, with Laura Dern on board to star.
Shanks is repped by WME, Untitled and legal professional Chris Abramson. McKay is repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro.
