KIDMAN TO PRODUCE, STAR IN HORROR REMAKE FOR UNIVERSAL (VAR)
By Nancy Vialatte
Universal Pictures has acquired remake rights to the Colombian horror film "Al final del espectro," and will develop it as a starring and producing vehicle for Nicole Kidman, reports Variety. The original�s director, Juan Felipe Orozco, is attached to direct the remake with Fernley Phillips writing the script. Kidman will produce through her Blossom Films banner, teamed with Vertigo Entertainment partners Roy Lee and Doug Davison and Rick Schwartz.
Schwartz was a co-producer of "The Departed" and worked with Kidman as exec producer of "The Others" and "Birthday Girl."
Plan is for Kidman to play a woman who, after a tragedy, is encouraged by her father to take refuge in a fancy apartment building. She becomes a shut-in, and begins to see a ghost.
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