{"id":648744,"date":"2026-03-11T20:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/648744\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:11:17","slug":"christopher-landon-directing-final-boarding-for-screen-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/648744\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Landon Directing &#8216;Final Boarding&#8217; For Screen Gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/christopher-landon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christopher-landon\" data-tag=\"christopher-landon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Landon<\/a> (Drop) is set to write and direct <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/final-boarding\/\" id=\"auto-tag_final-boarding\" data-tag=\"final-boarding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Boarding<\/a>, a new supernatural horror film for Sony Pictures\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/screen-gems\/\" id=\"auto-tag_screen-gems\" data-tag=\"screen-gems\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Screen Gems<\/a>, based on the short story by Clarence Hammond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPlot details for the film are being kept under wraps. Landon will work from both the short story and a previous script adaptation by Javier Gull\u00f3n, whose involvement <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/02\/javier-gullon-writing-final-boarding-screen-gems-1236296285\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we scooped<\/a> last February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHammond will serve as producer of the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA writer, director and producer well known for his work in the horror space, Landon is coming off of Drop, a critically acclaimed mystery thriller starring Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar that Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes teamed to produce for Universal. The film was released last April. Last fall, he hatched a Drop reunion at Netflix as he attached to direct Blink of an Eye, a thriller penned by his recent collaborators Chris Roach and Jillian Jacobs from his own story. Landon will produce that pic alongside Brad Fuller, Cameron Fuller and Michael Bay of\u00a0Platinum Dunes, who worked on Drop, as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlso recently co-writing and producing Screen Gems\u2019 horror comedy Heart Eyes, Landon is otherwise perhps best known for directing Freaky and the Happy Death Day films. Instrumental in making the Paranormal Activity franchise at Paramount alongside Screen Gems President Ashley Brucks, during her previous tenure there, he is repped by WME, Mosaic, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Landon (Drop) is set to write and direct Final Boarding, a new supernatural horror film for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":648745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93868,171,275675,53,275676,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-648744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-christopher-landon","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-final-boarding","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-screen-gems","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116212366670223373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}