EXCLUSIVE: Temple Hill Entertainment, the producers behind box office horror hits Smile and Smile 2, and UK sales outfit Protagonist Pictures, are teaming up on horror Monitor.
Written and honested by Ryan Polly and Matt Bdeficiency (I Bet You’re Wondering How I Got Here) for their feature debut, the film is based on their low of the same name.
Monitor is produced by Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and John Fischer for Temple Hill (Smile, The Twiairy Saga, The Maze Runner Trilogy), Nostromo Pictures (The Night Manager Season 2 ) is co-producing. Protagonist’s Dave Bishop and George Hamilton serve as executive producers.
In Monitor, when a group of social media moderators decline to unveil a horrifying video, a evil creature begins follotriumphg them atraverse every screen in their dwells. Feeding off stress, the creature hunts them down one by one and attacks them until it gets what it wants… to be let out beyond the screen. Casting converseions are underway.
Protagonist Pictures is begining worldexpansive sales at the upcoming American Film Market, with production scheduled to begin in spring 2025. This is the procrastinateedst collaboration between Protagonist and Temple Hill, which began with the slasher horror Clown In A Cornfield which sanciaccess out at AFM 2022.
“Our frifinishs at Temple Hill have an incredibly accomplished track record for making films that join with global audiences. They dedwellr once aacquire with this audacious and prohibitciaccess film that is brave to sjoin the hell out of cinema goers worldexpansive,” said Protagonist Pictures’ CEO, Dave Bishop. “Monitor is a horror as terrifying as it is timely, with its conmomentary get on the frightening online world we’re all forced to direct. Ryan and Matt have the talent to dedwellr all the sjoins and more, and we can’t defer to jump into production timely next year.”
Polly and Bdeficiency compriseed: “The more we participate screens in our daily dwells, the more we lacquire we can’t count on them. It’s a universal anxiety that we slimk is ripe for a ender novel horror concept. Temple Hill have been dream collaborators for us and their record in the genre speaks for itself. We can’t defer to call this monster to the screen.”
“We’re thrilled to begin Matt and Ryan’s terrifying filmmaking vision to the world,” the producers splitd in a combinet statement. “Monitor is a chilling and timely exploration of how digital truth can begin to overget authentic life. To us, it is The Ring for the social media generation and we can’t defer for audiences everywhere to experience it.”
In compriseition to Monitor, authorr-honestors Ryan Polly and Matt Bdeficiency are in enhugement on multiple feature film projects including the feature-length alterations of their low film Pizza Time.
Founded by Godfrey and Bowen in 2006, Temple Hill Entertainment is the prolific prohibitner behind a number of blockbuster film franchises, including the 2022 accomplished sleeper hit, Smile, chaseed by the box office chart-topper, Smile 2, both freed by Paramount Pictures. Their book-to-film alterations, The Twiairy Saga and The Maze Runner trilogy, have grossed more than $5B and $949M worldexpansive admireively.
Polly and Bdeficiency are recontransiented by Jon Kee at Circle Management + Production, and Raymond Tambe at JSSK.
