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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired The Vatican, a pitch for a conspiracy-driven thriller to be scripted by David Cohen. William Brent Bell, who directed and co-wrote the weekend’s surprise hit The Devil Inside for Paramount’s Insurge release label, has made a deal to direct the film. The Vatican will be produced by Roy Lee, Lawrence Grey and John Middleton, and Bell’s producing partner Matt Peterman. Peterman wrote The Devil Inside with Bell, and produced that horror hit with Morris Paulson. Despite receiving an F from CinemaScore, the low-budget The Devil Inside grossed $34.5 million on an opening weekend that is usually dominated by holiday holdovers.
The Vatican, a sale that was conducted right before the holidays, will be fast-tracked by Warner Bros and is described as a hybrid that uses some found-footage techniques like The Devil Inside did. Cohen wrote Subject Zero, a script on last year’s Black List, and No One Lives, which is in postproduction, was directed by Ryuhei Kitamura and stars Luke Evans. Cohen is repped by ICM and Generate, and Bell is repped by CAA.
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Why did DI get an F? I saw a older cut and it was badass. Subject Zero was cool. Should bring a nice touch to the DI guys’ style.
Is this the Chris Morgan project?
Would this come out before or after VATICAN TAPES? I smell another SNOW WHITE / MIRROR MIRROR battle.
Tebow > Devil Inside
It won’t matter which comes out first, the Catholic Church is already sharpening their pitchforks…
As Empress Livia responded about her charity helping Augustus’s adopted son through an illness – and was actually poisoning him: “No, no, goodness has nothing to do with it.”
Cohen’s “Subject Zero” was one of my favorite Black List scripts. I want to see that film!
That’s hollywood. A well marketed film that gets an F cinema score, but opens huge, jumps to the ‘A’ list.
No taste anymore – just #’s.
Who knows, maybe this movie will have an actual ending. Fingers crossed!
The Devil Inside was an EPIC disaster of a film regardless of the B.O. #’s. It was virtually unwatchable. I thought Warners got into business with better filmmakers than this?
“a pitch for a conspiracy-driven thriller to be scripted by David Cohen”
I like how this is possible but if a Catholic penned a conspiracy-driven thriller about Cohen’s tribe…well, you’d never even hear about it because it would have 0.00000% chance of being made.
Just sayin there is a whopping double-standard for whose toes you can step on, not that this is news to anyone.
Say no more. I’ve already worked out the script, so let’s hope for this thing to blow up and I can make my depraved Jewish horror picture. Oh, wait, didn’t Woody Allen already do that with Crimes and Misdemeanors? Maybe mine will feature a Golem. Or a Babka. Or both.
“I like how this is possible but if a Catholic penned a conspiracy-driven thriller about Cohen’s tribe…..”
Wait, David Cohen has his own tribe? How can he afford that?!
And they say writers aren’t paid enough? Sounds to me like they are paid too much!!!!
*folds arms*
Dave Cohen rules. Nice to see the good guys doing well and making sales.
Wow, will NEVER see anything with Bell’s name on it again. That POS DEVIl was not worth my time or money this weekend. Watch Week #2 fellas, for the biiiiiiggggg 2nd week drop.