Alcon Entertainment taps Brian Dannelly for faux-vampire comedy Suckers

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Last Updated on July 23, 2021

Production company Alcon Entertainment (THE WICKER MAN, the upcoming BEAUTIFUL CREATURES) has tapped Brian Dannelly to direct SUCKERS, a high school comedy-thriller written by Adrian Vina.

SUCKERS centers on a high schooler who tries to become popular when he moves to a new school by telling everyone he’s a vampire. But he runs into trouble when he’s accused of a murder.

That kid sounds like a real moron, but I guess we’ll wait and see how it all plays out…

Dannelly has directed episodes of “Weeds” and “The United States of Tara” in the past; he also helmed the 2004 comedy SAVED! starring Mandy Moore (below) and Macaulay Culkin.

Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson are producing for Alcon. No timetable has been set for SUCKERS yet.

Source: Variety

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