Some late day news has broken out of Variety, who is reporting that THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT director Peter Cornwell has been tapped to helm a sci-fi thriller entitled PANOPTICON for Lionsgate Entertainment.
Scripted by Craig Rosenberg (THE UNINVITED), PANOPTICON centers on a salesman who receives a pre-recorded message from himself that tells him the world is about to end and only he can save it.
Wow. Talk about a schizoid mind-f*ck!
But from Lionsgate’s standpoint, it makes sense to reunite with Cornwell, whose HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT grossed upward of $55 million. Rosenberg, who set up THE UNINVITED at DreamWorks, will serves as exec producer on PANOPTICON.
And for those wondering, a Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched.
Lionsgate looks to put the film in production next year, and plans to retain worldwide rights.
THE UNINVITED star Arielle Kebbel!
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