IT Director Andy Muschietti Teams With Kumail Nanjiani For Amblin's THE DOUBTFUL GUEST

Director Andy Muschietti (It) is teaming up with comedian Kumail Nanjiani for a new film project that’s been set up at Amblin Entertainment titled The Doubtful Guest.

The film is based on Edward Gorey’s book of the same name that was published in 1957. The story revolves around a mysterious, mischievous creature whose unannounced and unwelcome arrival at a family’s home brings trouble and chaos.

Muschietti is set to direct the film from a script written by The Big Sick scribe Emily V. Gordon. Nanjiani is attached to star in the film, and Barbara Muschietti and her brother Andy will produce through their newly-launched production company Double Dream.

The description of the book reads:

The doubtful guest shows up unannounced and unwelcome, yet its presence is accepted after only a brief interlude of screaming. The staid, pale, Victorian inhabitants of the mansion alternately stare and glare at the doubtful guest as it tears out whole chapters from books, peels the soles of its white canvas shoes, and broods while lying on the floor ("inconveniently close to the drawing-room door"). Strangely, or rather, typically, as this is a Gorey book, the stymied occupants never ask the guest to leave--and in 17 years it has still "shown no intention of going away."

I wasn’t familiar with this book until this news broke, but the story sounds like it’ll make for a strange and fun flick.