Noah Hawley Takes on a Chilling Reimagining of TERRIFIED For Warner Bros.
There’s an exciting horror project brewing at Warner Bros., and it brings together a filmmaker known for sharp storytelling with one of the creepiest modern horror films to come out of Argentina.
Noah Hawley is officially stepping in to direct and produce a reimagining of Terrified, the unsettling supernatural film originally created by Demián Rugna.
If you’ve seen the original, you already know this isn’t your typical haunted house story. Released in 2017 as Aterrados, Terrified follows a group of paranormal investigators digging into a string of bizarre and horrifying incidents in a Buenos Aires neighborhood.
What they uncover is something far worse than expected, a malevolent force that doesn’t follow any rules and doesn’t care about logic.
What makes this project even more interesting is that Hawley isn’t just swooping in to reinterpret the material on his own. He’s working closely with Rugna himself, who remains involved in developing the new version.
Rugna, who also directed the chilling film When Evil Lurks, clearly knows how to deliver nightmare fuel, so having him collaborate on this reimagining is a great sign.
Hawley will produce the film under his Austin-based banner, 26 Keys, continuing his streak of ambitious and genre-bending storytelling. He’s best known for creating and running the acclaimed FX series Fargo.
More recently, he expanded another iconic universe with Alien: Earth, which premiered on Hulu and FX and is already set to return for a second season. On the film side, Hawley made his directorial debut with Lucy in the Sky in 2019.
With Hawley’s track record of blending character-driven storytelling with strange, often unsettling ideas, he feels like a perfect match for Terrified.
Source: Deadline