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EYE FOR AN EYE
(formerly SOMEWHERE IN DREAMLAND)
Variety: Whitney Peak Horror Film ‘Eye for an Eye,’ From Music Video Director Colin Tilley, Boarded by HanWay and WME Ahead of AFM (EXCLUSIVE)
The feature debut of renowned music video director Colin Tilley will be shopped at the upcoming American Film Market.
“Eye for an Eye,” a sinister revenge horror set in the marshlands of Florida and starring Whitney Peak (“Gossip Girl”, “Hocus Pocus 2”), is being launched at the market by HanWay Films, which is repping international rights. WME Independent is handling domestic sales.
“Eye for an Eye” follows Anna (Peak), a young woman grieving the sudden death of her parents who relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother (Merkerson) she’s never met. Isolated, vulnerable and in need of friends, she finds brief solace in the company of two local teens (Bennett and Giles). But when she becomes complicit in their unforgivable act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr. Sandman – the twisted soul of a tormented child who haunts bullies’ dreams before feasting on their eyeballs when they finally wake.
Variety: Music Video Director Colin Tilley Making Feature Debut With Horror Film ‘Somewhere in Dreamland’ Starring Whitney Peak
Colin Tilley, the acclaimed director of music videos for Cardi B, Justin Bieber, and Nicki Minaj, will make his feature debut with “Somewhere in Dreamland.”
Production recently wrapped on the project, which stars Whitney Peak, from “Gossip Girl” and “Hocus Pocus 2,” as well as S. Epatha Merkerson (“Law & Order”), Golda Rosheuvel (“Bridgerton”), Finn Bennett (“True Detective”) and newcomer Laken Giles. Elisa Victoria penned the original graphic novel and the screenplay with Michael Tully.
The horror film follows Anna (Peak), who is grieving the sudden death of her parents when she relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother (Merkerson) she’s never met. Isolated, she falls in with some other teens, but when she becomes a bystander to a shocking act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr. Sandman, who haunts bullies’ dreams before feasting on their eyeballs when they wake up.
Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page, Rachael Fung, and Nate Kamiya serve as producers. David Darby, Lauren Shelton, Elisa Victoria, and Susan Kirr serve as executive producers. WME is handling sales of “Somewhere in Dreamland.”
The film was produced and financed by Ley Line Entertainment, co-financiers and executive producers of the Oscar-winning film “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” and the production company behind the Tony-nominated Broadway show “& Juliet.”