Artist International's Jennifer Derwingson Co-Writes Remake of "And Soon The Darkness"; Thriller to Be Released by Anchor Bay Th
July 20 2010 - 9:00AM
Marketwired
Jennifer Derwingson, a client of
Dave Brown, President of Motion Picture Literary
Department at
Artist International, has
helped pen the remake of the 1970s British thriller,
"And Soon The Darkness." The film, which she co-wrote
with director
Marcos Efron, was recently
acquired by
Anchor Bay in a seven-figure deal
and will be released in theaters across the U.S. this fall. Artist
International is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Hollywood Studios International headed by CEO and
chairman
Steven Saxton.
A modern take on the '70s original, the update moves the action
from rural France to the countryside of Argentina where it was
shot. Starring Amber Heard ("Zombieland," "Pineapple Express"),
Odette Yustman ("Cloverfield," "The Unborn,"), Karl Urban ("Star
Trek," "Lord of the Rings") and Adriana Barraza ("Drag Me To
Hell"), the film tells the chilling tale of two American girls who
experience a terrifying ordeal after one of them goes missing
during their bike riding journey through a remote area of South
America.
Raised in the mountains of Northern California, Derwingson is an
accomplished screenplay writer with several projects under her
belt. After graduating from the USC School of Cinematic Arts with
an MFA, she worked as a writer's assistant on USA Network's "The
Dead Zone," then sold her first feature, "The Yellow Wood," to
Spyglass Entertainment and Stephen J. Cannell. That led to several
writing assignments, including an adaptation of the Richard Bach
book, "Illusions," now set up at Warner Brothers. As a student, her
short film, "Roadside Assistance," played in festivals around the
world and earned numerous awards including the Student Emmy for
Comedy. Derwingson recently completed the Disney/ABC Writing
Fellowship.
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