New Line Partners with Nocturna for Zazie Beetz Horror Thriller ‘They Will Kill You’

New Line has come aboard to co-finance and distribute They Will Kill You , a thriller being produced by Nocturna Pictures, the horror label formed earlier this year by Skydance and It filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti.

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Zazie Beetz is set to star in the feature, which is heading towards a mid-September start in South Africa.

Kirill Sokolov, who wrote and directed the 2019 black action comedy Why Don’t You Just Die! , is directing. Sokolov co-wrote the script with Alex Litvak ( Predators ).

Kill You is described as a horror feature laced with the black humor that is Sokolov’s trademark, telling the story of a woman (Beetz) who answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious high-rise in New York City, not realizing she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years.

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David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger will produce via Skydance along with the Muschiettis and Dan Kagan, the former Orion executive who produced horror hit Longlegs .

Executive producing are Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder, who oversee Nocturna, along with Sokolov, Litvak, and Carl Hampe.

Kill You is a reunion of sort between New Line and the Muschiettis. Andy and Barbara Muschietti directed and produced, respectively, the two-part adaptation of Stephen King’s It . The first part became the highest grossing horror movie of all time. The second part wasn’t a clown at the box office either, with the movies giving New Line one of two of its billion-dollar horror franchises (the other one being The Conjuring Universe).

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