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Michael Shanks, the director behind last year’s cult favorite horror film togetherteamed up with Adam McKay, the multi-faceted writer, director, and producer behind films like… Deputy and Don’t look upfor a mysterious project.
An untitled sci-fi comedy written by Shanks has been picked up by Sony Pictures, with McKay attached to direct.
McKay is producing the feature with Todd Schulman via the duo’s Hyperobject Industries banner.
Andrew Mittman, one of the executive producers of Wednesday He co-developed Tim Burton’s remake of the classic B movie Attack of the fifty foot womanalso produced via 1.21 images. Kay Dolbashian, the company’s CEO, will produce. The two have worked in the same capacity with Shanks together.
Details of the project are being kept under wraps, but it is described as a sci-fi comedy.
Shanks began creating short films on YouTube and online before making his directorial debut togethera unique body horror film starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival where it sparked a bidding war, with Neon eventually purchasing it in a $17 million deal.
His next film is set to be a feature project titled Hotel, hotel, hotel, hotela sci-fi thriller set at A24 whose script was blacklisted for 2021. The project was the first writer-director teaming up with McKay and Shulman, who are among the producers. hotel.
McKay, whose films run this kind of gamut Announcer: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Talladega nights to The big short and deputy tOh rings succession and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. He last directed in 2021 Don’t look upa satire with an A-list cast that became one of the most watched films on Netflix.
Hyperobject banner stays busy. Among her upcoming projects is a mini-series centered around Jeffy Epstein, based on the book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story By Julie K. Brown, with Laura Dern on board to star.
Shanks is repped by WME, Untitled and attorney Chris Abramson. MacKay is repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro.
