The Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles has the type of history that conjures up memories of the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King's novel, The Shining. Its history includes serial killers, suicides, and murder. Perhaps its most chilling event, though, occurred last year when a woman was recorded acting very strangely in a Cecil Hotel elevator. She was later found drowned in a sealed water tank on the hotel's roof, which was seemingly inaccessible to hotel visitors.
So bizarre and disturbing was this drowning that it inspired a screenplay titled The Bringing that Sony Pictures recently picked up. Now a notable director is in talks to helm the upcoming horror movie.
Deadline reports that Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Valhalla Rising and Only God Forgives) is actively pursuing the director's chair for this haunted hotel project that was written by Brandon Murphy and Phillip Murphy. It's important to note that The Bringing is inspired rather than based closely on the tragic drowning and bizarre elevator activity that took place at the Cecil Hotel last year:
"The script has nothing really to do with that that tragedy but it created a germ of an idea focusing on a man investigating a death at the hotel, and the nightmare he stumbles into."
We'll keep Daily Dead readers posted on further news on 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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