18-05-2025
Cannes: ‘The Creep' Reboot Sells for U.K. (Exclusive)
True Brit Entertainment has picked up U.K. and Irish rights to The Creep, director Christopher Smith's reimagining of his 2004 horror cult classic.
Top Boy's Jasmine Jobson, Wicked actor Andy Nyman, and U.K. rapper Aitch, in his acting debut, co-star in the Gen Z Creep update.
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The original film follows a woman (Run Lola Run star Franke Potente) locked in the London Underground overnight. She later finds herself being stalked by a hideously deformed killer living in the sewers below.
In the new film, Jobson plays Chloe, a struggling artist and former drug mule who gets pulled into doing one final job: Running drugs across London for an old contact, the elusive Mads. Carrying a holdall of narcotics and an envelope of cash, Chloe boards the last train on the London Underground, only to find herself trapped in a nightmare. A masked killer slaughters her fellow passengers in a blood-soaked frenzy, and Chloe barely escapes, fleeing into a labyrinth of tunnels. Captured by this grotesquely deformed psychopath, she's thrown into a makeshift prison with other terrified captives. With the help of sharp-witted rapper Natter G and the resourceful Nina, she leads a desperate fight through a nightmarish maze.
Nyman plays Dave, a captive well acquainted with the Creep's modus operandi, while Brit award-winner Aitch is Natter G, a famous rapper with keenly honed survival instincts.
The Creep is set to begin shooting in London this fall. The producers of the original film, Julie Baines and Jason Newmark, are back for the reboot, being produced by Baines' Dan Films and Newmark's Newscope Films. Jonathan Taylor of Dan Films and Laurie Cook of Newscope will also produce. The original Creep cinematographer Danny Cohen and the production designer from the first film, John Frankish are also on board for the new movie.
Peter Watson and Gabrielle Stewart will executive produce together with True Brit founder and CEO Zygi Kamasa. HanWay Films, which represented sales on the original film, is handling worldwide sales.
The Creep was developed with funding from HanWay's new development fund that helps late-stage projects get over the line. HanWay Film's Nicole Mackey and Katie Ellen negotiated the deal with True Brit Entertainment's Nick Manzi.
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