Paul Feig is set to room with Jason Blum. The duo are teaming for a feature adaptation of the Netflix unscripted series Worst Roommate Ever for Blumhouse.
Feig will direct a feature centered on a newly single woman finding a seemingly perfect gentleman to sublet the spare room in her dream home, only to learn his deceit goes beyond a phony name and application. She has unwittingly invited a serial squatter into her home, and he won’t leave without a fight.
“Jason and I have been trying to find the perfect project to collaborate on for years and this story is tailor-made to deliver the scares, thrills, emotion and comedy of dread that both he and I like to entertain audiences with,” Feig said in a statement. “In other words, I couldn’t be happier to have Jason as the best roommate ever for this film.”
Feig recently completed The School for Good and Evil for Netflix. His upcoming projects include directing and producing the action-comedy film Jackpot for Amazon MGM Studios, and he recently wrapped production on A Simple Favor 2, a sequel to the 2018 thriller of the same name.
The feature take on Worst Roommate Ever will be produced by Laura Fischer and marks the first time Blumhouse has produced a movie and TV show based on the same piece of intellectual property. A 2018 New York Magazine article by William Brennan inspired the original unscripted TV series Worst Roommate Ever from Blumhouse Television, which has earned two seasons on Netflix.
It’s understood Blumhouse always had plans to adapt Brennan’s article as a TV series and feature film, but the big screen adaptation didn’t get a greenlight until Feig got on board.
Feig welcomed teaming with Jason Blum on the feature adaptation. “Jason and I have been trying to find the perfect project to collaborate on for years and this story is tailor-made to deliver the scares, thrills, emotion and comedy of dread that both he and I like to entertain audiences with. In other words, I couldn’t be happier to have Jason as the best roommate ever for this film,” he said in a statement.
The producing credits on the feature adaptation are also shared by Blum, Chris Morgan and Vox Media’s Scoop Wasserstein. Executive producing are Chris Morgan Productions’ Ainsley Morgan, William Brennan and Blumhouse’s Bea Sequeira.
Blumhouse re-teamed with Stephen Susco (Unfriended: Dark Web) on the screenplay for Feig’s feature. Haley Pigman is overseeing the project for Blumhouse.
“Paul is the perfect director for this because his work always manages to strike a balance between the dark and the light, and I’m very excited to see everything he will bring to this story,” Blumhouse CEO and founder Blum said.
