Chris Sparling

Date of Birth

1977-03-21

Place of Birth

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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Freida Pinto and Phil Dunster are joining Gugu Mbatha-Raw in season 2 of the Apple TV+ thriller series Surface

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Intrusion: Logan Marshall-Green, Freida Pinto featured in first images

Posted 5 years ago

Originally announced in 2016, the home invasion thriller Intrusion – which was scripted by Buried (watch it HERE) screenwriter Chris Sparling – finally went into production last year with Adam Salky (director of 2009’s Dare, starring Emmy Rossum, and 2015’s...

Review: The Sea of Trees

Posted 10 years ago

PLOT: A depressed American man travels to Japan's "Suicide Forest" on a quest to end it all. A chance meeting with another lost soul makes him rethink his decision, as well as ponder the events that led him there in...

Matthew McConaughey talks life and death in The Sea of Trees trailer

Posted 10 years ago

Arthur Brennan (Matthew McConaughey) treks into Aokigahara, known as The Sea of Trees (that’s the title!), which is a mysterious and dense forest at the base of Japan’s Mount Fuji where people go to commit suicide. On his journey, he...

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Buried writer Chris Sparling plots an Intrusion

Posted 10 years ago

With the 2010 film BURIED, screenwriter Chris Sparling (and directed Rodrigo Cortes) earned attention and accolades for managing to make a story about a man trapped in a coffin for the entirety of a feature length film an interesting and...

Netflix acquires Mercy, a home invasion thriller from the writer of Buried

Posted 11 years ago

Writer Chris Sparling made a big splash a few years back with his spec script BURIED, which was made into a superb, claustrophobic thriller by Rodrigo Cortes and Ryan Reynolds. After that, he penned ATM (not so superb) and...

Exclusive clip from The Atticus Institute starring Rya Khilstedt!

Posted 11 years ago

THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE, from producer of THE CONJURING Peter Safran, will be available OnDemand, DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow, January 20th, and do get you prepared for the film we’ve got an exclusive clip to share! In it, a patient (Rya...

Watch the official trailer for possession thriller The Atticus Institute

Posted 11 years ago

With the genre being littered with one tale of possession after another, it’s nice to see a little film like THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE come along and try something new. The entire trailer is made up of faux documentary footage and...

New images from Chris Sparling’s possession thriller The Atticus Institute

Posted 11 years ago

Earlier this week we learned that BURIED writer Chris Sparling's directorial debut THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE would be arriving on Blu-ray and DVD on January 20, 2015, and today we've landed a big batch of new images from the possession thriller...

Possession thriller The Atticus Institute set for January release

Posted 11 years ago

Anchor Bay’s latest foray into the world of possession sees them release a little indie haunter from the producer of THE CONJURING Peter Safran. Hitting shelves on Blu-ray and DVD on January 20, 2015, THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE marks Chris Sparling’s...

Buried director Rodrigo Cortes goes Down a Dark Hall for Lionsgate

Posted 12 years ago

BURIED and RED LIGHTS director Rodrigo Cortes has climbed aboard DOWN A DARK HALL for Lionsgate, the studio announced today. Cortes’ BURIED writer Chris Sparling has also joined to work on the screenplay. The film is based on the 1974...

Stephen King’s short story Ayana being adapted for television

Posted 12 years ago

Stephen King, having enjoyed television success most recently with “Under the Dome”, is sticking around the boob tube with “Ayana”. Screenwriter Chris Sparling (BURIED) is adapting the story, which appeared in the anthology “Just After Sunset”, for Universal TV. The...

True Detective Casting: Alexandra Daddario and Matthew McConaughey

Posted 12 years ago

Have you seen HBO’s TRUE DETECTIVE yet? If not, then that’s something you need to get on rather quick. It’s a damn good show. After seeing this, I can say with certainty that television has surpassed movies as far as...

First poster, synopsis for The Atticus Institute, from the producer of The Conjuring

Posted 13 years ago

Chris Sparling, the writer of BURIED and ATM, will be making his directorial debut with the supernatural thriller THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE, which is being produced by THE CONJURING producer Peter Safran, and we've got the first poster and a synopsis...