EXCLUSIVE: Noted genre filmmaking duo The Spierig Brothers, known for movies including Daybreakers, Jigsaw, Winchester and the upcoming Fall 2, are set to direct Headless, a contemporary re-imagining of the Headless Horseman mythology.
With nods to Mad Max and The Terminator, the synopsis reads: “A rudderless hitchhiker and a driven woman avenging her family’s death must stop a motorcycle-riding semi-immortal ghoul that feeds off the carnage it causes on desert highways by decapitating it and getting its head far enough away, long enough, from its relentlessly pursuant still-living body.”
Altitude has come aboard for international sales and will be presenting the project to buyers on the Cannes Croisette this week. Rialto has acquired distribution rights to the film for Australia and New Zealand.
Written by Shane Armstrong (The Contents) and S.P. Krause (The Contents) the film will be produced by industry vet Chris Brown (Daybreakers) for his Picture in Paradise, Martin Metz (Mandy) for Rosewood Pictures and Diana Le Dean (Sting) and developed with support from Screen Queensland.
Cameras and heads are due to roll in Australia later in the year.
The brothers’ last film, 2018 horror Winchester with Helen Mirren, made $44M global off a sub five million dollar budget.
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