{"id":624079,"date":"2026-08-06T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/624079\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:31:11","slug":"john-david-washington-to-star-in-supernatural-horror-thriller-mime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/624079\/","title":{"rendered":"John David Washington to Star in Supernatural Horror Thriller Mime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tComing on top of a competitive situation, Sony\u2019s Screen Gems has landed Mime, a supernatural horror project\u00a0that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/john-david-washington\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-david-washington_1\" data-tag=\"john-david-washington\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John David Washington<\/a> attached to star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNikyatu Jusu, who made her feature directorial debut with the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Nanny, will direct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPlot details are being kept behind an invisible wall. Stephen Herman wrote the spec screenplay, which is based on his original idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tProducing are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/matt-tolmach\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-tolmach_1\" data-tag=\"matt-tolmach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Tolmach<\/a>, who packaged the project, as well as The Black Phone filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/scott-derrickson-0\/\" id=\"auto-tag_scott-derrickson-0_1\" data-tag=\"scott-derrickson-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Derrickson<\/a> via his Crooked Highway banner. Washington will also produce along with Tolmach\u2019s partner Camila Grove. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe WME-repped Washington starred in Spike Lee\u2019s BlacKkKlansman, his breakout, and then went on to star in films such as Christopher Nolan\u2019s Tenet and Gareth Edwards\u2019 sci-fi thriller The Creator. He last appeared in the 2024 drama The Piano Lesson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJusu\u2019s Nanny was a psychological horror that starred Anna Diop as am immigrant nanny whose life in America becomes derailed by visions. Amazon and Blumhouse teamed up to acquire it. Jusu is repped by CAA, Gaby Mena and Natalia Williams at M88 and Granderson Des Rochers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming on top of a competitive situation, Sony\u2019s Screen Gems has landed Mime, a supernatural horror project\u00a0that has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,263622,257270,17276],"class_list":["post-624079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-david-washington","tag-matt-tolmach","tag-scott-derrickson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117050231177838376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}