Director Scott Derrickson, who is set to make his highly-anticipated directorial return to horror with the upcoming feature film The Black Phone, has now been tapped to helm Skydance’s latest film The Gorge.
Although the logline is currently being kept under wraps, Deadline is reporting that the film is a high-action, genre-bending love story. The Gorge is based on a spec script from Zach Dean, the writer behind The Tomorrow War. The film has been an internal project at Skydance for some time now after the studio won a bidding war for the script in the fall of 2020.
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Derrickson’s production company Crooked Highway will join Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger as producers. The filmmaker’s creative partners C. Robert Cargill and Sherryl Clark will also produce through Crooked Company as well as Dean and Adam Kolbrenner.
