Pharrell Williams is teaming up with Tracy Oliver, the biographer abaft the hit Girls Trip, to accouterment an adjustment of the YA book Survive the Night.
Warner Bros. aloof best up the package, which will see Oliver address the calligraphy and absolute the music-themed abhorrence thriller.
Williams will aftermath with Mimi Valdes, his accomplice at I Am Other Entertainment. Additionally bearing are Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Dutton of Alloy Entertainment, the book packager and assembly outfit.
The adventure follows a accumulation of changeable academy acceptance trapped central an underground barn music anniversary on Halloween. They charge action for their lives adjoin a abstruse antagonist who hunts them bottomward throughout the night.
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Independent blur ambassador Jon Alston will assignment with Oliver on the architecture and the attending for the blur and act as a adviser on the project. Niija Kukendall will baby-sit for the studio.
Oliver and the producers see the activity as a ashore empowerment adventure about four changeable friends. Music will be a ample basic to the story.
Williams, Valdes and Oliver ahead collaborated on Awkward Atramentous Girl, a YouTube web alternation that starred Issa Rae. Williams and Valdes were allotment of the aggregation that produced Hidden Figures, the hit ball that told the accurate adventure of four atramentous women who were important to NASA's programs in the 1960s. They additionally were complex in the Sundance beloved Dope.
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Oliver isn't advancing into the director's bench cold, as she wrote and directed a abbreviate blur that accompanied R&B artisan Jhene Aiko's latest album, Trip.
Oliver is afterlight Rapper's Delight for ambassador Stephanie Allain and is additionally adapting Nicola Yoon's YA atypical The Sun Is Additionally a Star for Alloy and Warners. Oliver's changeable empowerment hit ball Girls Trip grossed over $115 actor domestically. She is repped by ICM Partners, Principato Young and Myman Greenspan.
This commodity originally appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.
