‘Elle’ & ‘Slender Man’ Scribe David Birke, SBS International & Director Pascal Laugier Team On Vampire Horror ‘Nocturnal’ — Cannes Market

EXCLUSIVE: Elle, Benedetta and Slender Man scribe David Birke is re-teaming with Benedetta and Elle producer Saïd Ben Saïd and with director Pascal Laugier (Incident In A Ghostland) on vampire horror Nocturnal.

The script, which has a fun premise, has been a passion project for U.S. scribe Birke since he was a student and he has returned to it multiple times. The project now has fresh impetus with SBS Productions and SBS International, which is repping sales at the Cannes market. The team is aiming to shoot this fall in Latvia.

Set in 1943, the story begins “with a group of refugees, fleeing Vichy France, who attempt a desperate crossing of the Channel, only to wind up stranded on a supposedly deserted island. The island turns out to be home to an undying supernatural evil. The curse of undeath takes each of the fugitives, one by one, until only one is left alive and still human. She must now adapt to surviving at the margins of the strange, violent and perverse community formed by her former friends.

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