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Screen Gems Lands Rights To Joe Hill’s Short Story ‘Ushers’ With Gary Dauberman Producing
EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s Screen Gems has acquired rights to Ushers, an unpublished short story written by Joe Hill. Under his first look deal with the studio, Gary Dauberman and his team at Coin Operated will develop and produce with Zak Olkewicz set to write the script. Coin Operated’s President, Mia Maniscalco, will also be a producer.
Plot is being kept under wraps. Ashley Brucks and Michael Bitar will oversee for the studio.
Dauberman is currently producing under his Coin Operated banner, alongside Mångata’s David F. Sandberg and Lotta Losten, the film adaptation of Until Dawn from PlayStation Productions and Sony’s Screen Gems, to be directed by Sandberg, and a screenplay written by Dauberman and Blair Butler.
Olkewicz has ties to the studio having penned the adaptation to their hit action pic Bullet Train.
Olkewicz is repped by CAA and 3Arts. Hill is repped by Hotchkiss Daily & Associates. Dauberman is repped by CAA, Industry Entertainment, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan,