Scott Derrickson is set to direct Skydance’s The Gorge. Skydance acquired Zach Dean’s spec script last fall in a competitive bidding war and have been developing internally.
Derrickson’s company, Crooked Highway, will join Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger as producers. Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Sherryl Clark will produce through Crooked Company as well as Dean and Adam Kolbrenner. The logline is being kept under wraps, but it is a high-action, genre-bending love story.
Next up for Derrickson is the Blumhouse thriller The Black Phone bowing in June. That film reunites him with his Sinister star Ethan Hawke.
He is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
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