Spirit Halloween Store film in the works starring Christopher Lloyd, Rachael Leigh Cook
Spirit Halloween, the iconic costume and prop store with 1,425 locations across North America, has teamed with Strike Back Studios, Hideout Pictures and Particular Crowd for a feature-length family movie called, you guessed it, “Spirit Halloween.”
Billed as a family/kids adventure movie, the project stars “Back to the Future’s” Christopher Lloyd and “She’s All That” star Rachael Leigh Cook, as well as some new faces.
“When a new Spirit Halloween store appears in a deserted strip mall, three middle-school friends who think they’ve outgrown trick-or-treating make a dare to spend the night locked inside the store Halloween night,” reads the logline. “But they soon find out that the store is haunted by an angry evil spirit who has possessed the creepy animatronic characters. The kids embark on a thrilling and spooky adventure in order to survive the night and avoid becoming possessed themselves.”
Joining Lloyd and Cook are Donavan Colan (“Zoe”), Dylan Frankel (“Raven’s Home”), Jaiden Smith (“Blue Bloods”) and Marissa Reyes (“Raven’s Home”)
Marla Gibbs (“El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie”) is also set to star in the film, which is helmed by David Poag, making his directorial feature debut. Billie Bates has written the screenplay.
Filming on “Spirit Halloween” has now wrapped, with the production aiming for an October 2022 release.
“One of the reasons I immediately connected with the script is it is very much inspired by some of my favorite kid adventure films growing up from ‘The Goonies,’ ‘Gremlins,’ ‘Monster Squad’ and so many great films made by Amblin Entertainment,” said Noor Ahmed, president of Strike Back Studios.
Ahmed will produce “Spirit Halloween” with Shannon Houchins. Tomás’ Yanelevich, Peter Bevan, Mariana Sanjurjo and Clay Epstein are executive producing.
The production, which has secured a promotional partnership with Spirit Halloween, is a collaboration between Hideout Pictures (“Old Henry”) and WarnerMedia Latin America’s original film label Particular Crowd in association with Film Mode Entertainment (“As They Made Us”).
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I’m looking forward to seeing this!