EXCLUSIVE: Amidst an industry-wide search for the next breakout horror project, Fox Entertainment Studios has snapped up Bleed the Nighta spec by Keith Cooper and Zoe Cooperbased on a story by Keith Cooper and Justin Dyck.
Bleed the Night opens with a lonely teenager answering a mysterious ad reading “MUST LOVE BLOOD.” She then meets a charismatic young vampire who offers her the friendship and freedom she’s always craved — turning one summer night in 1994 into a bloody crime spree that tests just how far she’ll go for her first real friend.
Mark Ankner is producing for Mountain Top Pictures (Ponyboy, Slanted) alongside Adam Goldworm via his Aperture banner (upcoming Horror disorder, Hannibal). Dyck serves as executive producer. While unconfirmed, we’re told the team is actively meeting with directors with an eye toward shooting in Q1 2027.
Keith Cooper and Dyck come to the project after partnering on the 2020 horror flick Anything for Jacksonas well as QC Entertainment’s forthcoming horror-thriller Casket Girls starring Gabrielle Union, to be released in the U.S. by Aura Entertainment. Cooper wrote and Dyck directed both of those titles; the duo also jointly produced the former. As a director, Dyck has also worked on Shudder’s Creepshow. He and Cooper are repped by WME, Aperture and Ashley Silver at Brecheen Feldman Breimer.
Zoe Cooper wrote an early draft of the new Blair Witch Project for Lionsgate. She just rewrote Addie LaRue for Lionsgate. Other credits include one of the Fear Street movies for Netflix, the Peacock series Teacup and on the animated Castlevania series for Netflix. She is repped by WME, Gotham Group and Stuart Rosenthal at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Source: deadline.com
