Dan Trachtenberg to Direct Animated Slasher Movie for the Whole Family

Small, unruly aliens crash at Timothée Chalamet’s place in Illumination’s latest offering. Evil Dead Burn stars the grandson of a colleague of Professor Knowby’s. Lily James buys a haunted ranch in a new Southern gothic/folk horror mashup. An animatronic tiger shark wreaks havoc at an animal sanctuary in The Bay. Smile, you son of a… it’s Morning Spoilers! Deadline reports Dan Trachtenberg is attached to direct an animated “horror-based” family comedy at Paramount adapting Freddy the 13th, a graphic novel by Yehudi Mercado. The story follows “the trials and tribulations of the hapless Freddy Vanwinkle, the thirteenth son of a thirteenth-born son who fails at everything in contrast to his brilliant siblings. One night, while looking after his nephew and niece Logan and Lola, he accidentally kills the legendary slasher Nighty Night and automatically inherits the mantle of the monster. With rival killers emerging out of the shadows, Freddy has thirteen nights to break the curse.” According to the outlet, Paramount Animation is “pitching the feature as a PG-rated horror” film “delivering scares and laughs to the whole family.” Deadline also reports Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Rob