‘Deadstream’ Filmmakers to Helm ‘Future Me’ Based on Viral Reddit Short
‘Deadstream’ filmmakers Joseph and Vanessa Winter are getting back into the internet horror game with ‘Future Me’, based on a viral short.
Hollywood’s mad grab for viral horror shorts continues, as Variety reports that Joseph and Vanessa Winter (Deadstream) will next direct Future Me for Longevity Pictures, indie genre label Spooky Pictures, and Abu Dhabi’s Image Nation Studios.
And it sounds like exactly the sort of creepy, internet-based tale the filmmakers are known for.
Based on a viral Reddit short by Daria Vasileva and originally published in the “NoSleep” subreddit, the film “follows a man who receives a deeply unsettling email from his past self via the ‘FutureMe’ website, a message that draws him down a terrifying and increasingly surreal rabbit hole.”
Even if this premise didn’t sound as intriguing as it is, I’d still be excited. The Winter duo came out swinging with their debut feature, Deadstream. Starring Joseph Winter as an obnoxious streamer who investigates a haunted house with terrible consequences, the film plays like a found-footage Evil Dead. It’s gross, it’s scary, and it’s hugely entertaining. Future Me has the potential to deliver more of the same.
Producers include Majd Nassif for Longevity Pictures, alongside Steven Schneider and Roy Lee for Spooky Pictures. Image Nation Studios’ Ben Ross and Longevity Pictures’ Aysel Lyatifova will executive produce.
Future Me is part of a new multi-picture deal announced by the studios following their collaboration on the upcoming horror feature Home Safety Hotline directed by Michael Matthews (Love and Monsters) and based on Night Signal Entertainment’s popular puzzle video game of the same name.