Universal and Amblin have picked up a scorching spec from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the prolific thought mills behind A Quiet Place.
Like every thing with the duo, plot particulars are being stored in a soundproof room, however it’s mentioned to be a excessive idea sci-fi film that they’ll direct.
Steven Spielberg, coming off of final weekend’s Disclosure Day, will produce by way of Amblin Entertainment with Kristie Macosko Krieger and Holly Bario. Beck and Woods may even produce by way of Beck/Woods together with Julia Glausi, their banner’s head of movie and TV.
Beck and Woods are longtime pals from Iowa who have been propelled to mainstream success in 2018 due to their spec A Quiet Place, which Paramount purchased and made into the hit movie starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, who additionally directed. It launched a profitable franchise for the studio that spans sequels and spinoffs, and proved how huge Beck and Woods’ concepts might change into.
Beck and Woods are coming off of the essential and industrial A24 hit Heretic, the psychological thriller starred Hugh Grant as a person who imprisons two Mormon missionaries as forces them to interrogate their religion. It collected $60 million globally on a $10 million price range. Earlier than that, they helmed the sci-fi characteristic 65 starring Adam Driver for Sony.
In 2024, they spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about spinning a number of plates in terms of growing initiatives, with Beck noting that they had “this huge science-fiction idea that we’ve been sitting with for 10 or 12 years now, and that idea won’t go away.” Added the filmmaker: “We just love swinging into different sides of the industry pendulum, going from A Quiet Place, this small contained horror idea (Heretic), to 65, which is bigger, but then swinging so far in the opposite direction with verbose dialogue and something really performance centric.”
Beck and Woods are repped by CAA, Nameless Content material and Manatt Phelps & Phillips.
