Lil Rel Howery To Direct & Star In Comedy-Horror ‘Haunted Heist’ Alongside Tiffany Haddish; ‘Terrifier’ Outfit The Coven Launches At AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Lil Rel Howery (Get Out) is set to direct and star in comedy-horror Haunted Heist, alongside Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip).
The Coven, fresh off the theatrical success of Terrifier 3, has signed on to represent the feature from a script by Carl Reid, writer of Hulu horror Mr. Crocket. It will mark Howery’s directorial debut.
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In Haunted Heist, “four estranged friends reunite at what appears to be a typical house. But one friend has ulterior motives; he plans to rob the place and needs their help to find an antique worth a fortune. But the house is straight up haunted, and the group must squash their differences to survive the night and an insane pack of ghosts”.
Filming is being lined up for January 2025 with The Coven launching world sales at the American Film Market this week in Las Vegas.
Howery will produce Haunted Heist with Death Ground’s Josh Feldman and Sean King O’Grady — the team behind Howery’s Hulu movie The Mill — alongside Robinwood7’s Feras Majid Shammami and Jesse Ford. Priscilla Ross Smith and Kendall Anlian are executive-producing. Feldman and O’Grady also recently produced Mr. Crocket for Hulu.
This will be The Coven’s sophomore debut as a producer after their 2023 Canadian production Shadow of God, starring Mark O’Brien (Ready or Not) and Jacqueline Byers (Prey for the Devil).
Howery is best known for his roles in Get Out, The Mill, Free Guy and Judas and the Black Messiah. He will next appear in Universal’s Dog Man and Sony’s One Of Them Days. Haddish is well known for Girls Trip, Like a Boss, The Card Counter, and Bad Boys: Ride or Die. She previously collaborated with Howery on The Carmichael Show, Uncle Drew, as well as their Best Friends Comedy Tour in 2023.
“I’m so excited to be working on this project in front and behind the camera” said Howery. “It’s going to be so much fun.”
“We are always looking for something fun and fresh. The best Saturday night movie that an audience could hope for,” said The Coven’s Priscilla Smith. “Haddish and Howery will knock this out of the park.”
Howery is repped by UTA, Fourth Wall Management and Cohen & Gardner. Haddish is repped by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Cole.
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