The Cecil Hotel has a macabre history that includes serial killers, suicides, and murder, but perhaps its most disturbing event happened last year, when a woman was recorded acting strangely in an elevator before being found drowned in a sealed water tank on the hotel’s roof two weeks later. The Bringing is an upcoming film inspired by the bizarre death and now Sony's chosen a director for the project.
Deadline reports that Sony Pictures is in talks with Jeremy Lovering to direct The Bringing. The film's script was written by brothers Brandon Murphy and Phillip Murphy after the woman's bizarre drowning occurred last year. A video of the woman talking either to herself or an unseen entity went viral, adding a seriously spooky layer to the already mysterious circumstances surrounding her drowning. The event gave the brothers the idea to write a movie in which a man investigates a weird death at the supposedly haunted hotel, where he is pulled into a hellish situation.
Matt Tolmach and Daniela Cretu are producing the picture. Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Valhalla Rising and Only God Forgives) was previously in talks to direct the film.
Jeremy Lovering is known in the horror genre for his 2013 film, In Fear, which follows a young couple stalked by a deadly stranger on the road.
We’ll keep Daily Dead readers posted on new details about The Bringing as it develops.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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