Overview
- Searchlight acquired the feature from New Republic Pictures, which picked up rights in 2020 following earlier TV development efforts at FX and Fox.
- Jonathan Levine is attached as writer-director and has delivered the most recent draft, building on an earlier script by author Grady Hendrix.
- Producing duties are set for Brian Oliver (New Republic), Gillian Bohrer (Megamix), Adam Goldworm (Aperture Entertainment) and Brad Fischer, with Hendrix and Quirk Books as executive producers.
- Searchlight executives Richard Ruiz, VP of production, and Apolline Berty, production executive, are overseeing the project under heads DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.
- The adaptation draws on Hendrix’s 2014 novel about an IKEA-like Orsk superstore in Cleveland where employees probe strange overnight disturbances.