Up next from Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is the Netflix family adventure movie We Have a Ghost, and The Hollywood Reporter breaks the first casting news today.
David Harbour (“Stranger Things”) and Anthony Mackie (Synchronic) have been set to star in the now-filming movie, alongside Tig Notaro (Army of the Dead), Jennifer Coolidge (Promising Young Woman), and Jahi Di’Allo Winston (Charm City Kings). The cast will also include Erica Ash, Isabella Russo, Niles Fitch, Faith Ford and Steve Coulter.
This project was first announced back in 2017, and it’s an adaptation of a story written by Geoff Manaugh that was published on Vice in October of that year.
The film “follows Kevin and his family, who find a ghost named Ernest haunting their new home and get turned into overnight social media sensations. But when Kevin and Ernest go rogue to investigate the mystery of Ernest’s past, they become a target of the CIA.”
Manaugh’s story was titled Ernest, billed as a “socially mediated ghost story.”
Landon wrote the script, and he’s also directing.
