Supernatural Action Project 'Spectral' Lands at Legendary Pictures (Exclusive)

Legendary Pictures goes ghost-busting, acquiring the supernatural action project Spectral from author Ian Fried. The premise in the project is devoted to some contemporary-day, militaristic and gritty approach to fighting the supernatural. Sources the pitch, which offered for six figures, remains known to love a far more dark plus much more serious to experience a Ghostbusters-like story, getting a plot which is about a distinctive procedures group produced to produce lower evil ghosts that have absorbed Manhattan. Locations and particulars might change throughout the time from the writing, however. PHOTOS: The Scene at Hillcrest Comic Disadvantage Fried upset cure making an exhibit together with a "rip reel," a mash-from moments off their movies that shown the Warner Bros.-based Legendary just what the tone, story beats and visual style might be. Fried is certainly a growing author who formerly written the well-loved script The Ever After Killings, featuring mythic figures Tom Thumb and Rachel Riding considering a killing. That script showed up round the 2010 Black List. This summer season, Gaslight, a Medieval serial killer story featuring Florence Nightingale and Jack the Ripper, made the models but got Fried plenty of conferences. He's repped by WME and Prolific Entertainment. Email: Borys.Package@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Package