One of Indonesia’s modern masters of horror, Joko Anwar (Satan’s Slaves, Impetigore) has set up his next project, an English-language horror movie titled Fritzchen.
Deadline reports that Anwar will be directing the film for Village Roadshow, making his English-language debut. It’s an adaptation of a short story by Charles Beaumont.
Deadline details, “While the story published in Orbit magazine in 1953 (and later in Beaumont’s anthology Yonder) examines a boy’s encounter with a strange creature on the beach, blending elements of sci-fi and horror, details with regard to the film’s plot are being kept under wraps.”
Michael Voyer (The Broodmare) is adapting the script for Anwar’s Fritzchen, with David Kopple on board to produce for Entertainment 360.
Charles Beaumont, Deadline notes, was an accomplished genre writer, having penned several “Twilight Zone” episodes as well as the 1964 film The Masque of the Red Death.
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