Editorial Staff
Michael and Peter Spierig, the Oz-born directors behind the upcoming “Predestination”, have already struck a deal for their next film.
According to Deadline, Hammer Films has tapped the filmmaking brothers for “Winchester”, a supernatural thriller about an heir to that firearms family fortune who believes she has been cursed by the victims and the lethal legacy of the “gun that won the West.”
The Spierig brothers will also rewrite Tom Vaughan’s script.
The movie, to be shot in the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, “revolves around heir Sarah Winchester who in 1884 began 38 years of construction on the 24,000 square foot, 160-room Gothic mansion. It was after the sudden deaths of her husband and child that Winchester began to believe she was cursed by the family legacy, and she was instructed to build the mansion by a spiritualist medium, to appease the spirits. She never stopped building.”
“We can’t wait to see what the Spierig brothers unearth as they delve in to the mysteries of Sarah Winchester and her infamous haunted house,” said Tobin Armbrust of Hammer Films. “As the first feature film ever shot inside the Winchester Mystery House, we are excited to have these fantastic filmmakers bring their unique vision to the table.”
