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A trailer has been unveiled for director John McPhail’s ghost story Dear David, starring Augustus Prew and Justin Long
Back in 2017, BuzzFeed writer Adam Ellis wrote out a ghost story (which he swears is completely true) on Twitter, and that story caught so much attention that there was soon talk of a movie adaptation. The project, Dear Dave was first set up by New Line Cinema in 2018 and then moved to Lionsgate. Lionsgate announced today that Dear Dave will be released theatrically, digitally, and on VOD on October 13th. You can watch the trailer above. The film was directed by John McPhail from a script written by Mike Van Waes. The cast of Dear David
is headed up by Augustus Prew (Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series), Justin Long (Tusk), Rene Escobar Jr. (Heartland), Cameron Nicoll (Stolen by Their Father), and Andrea Bang (A Million Little Things). In 2018, Ellis’s Twitter thread about his experiences with the ghost he called ‘Dear David’ went viral, gaining him more than a million followers on the platform.Here is the synopsis: Adam (Augustus Prew), a former BuzzFeed worker and social media content creator, becomes haunted a demon entity. In 2018, Ellis’s Twitter thread about his experiences with the ghost he called ‘Dear David’ went viral, gaining him more than a million followers on the platform.Here’s the synopsis:
Shortly after comic artist Adam (Augustus Prew) responds to Internet trolls, he begins experiencing sleep paralysis — while an empty rocking chair moves in the corner of his apartment. Adam, who chronicles increasingly threatening occurrences through a series tweets, begins to believe that he is being haunted. Encouraged by his boss to continue the “Dear David” thread, Adam starts to lose his grip on what is online… and what is real.You can read Ellis’s original tweets at THIS LINK. Van Waes and executive producer Evan Turner worked together to turn the story Ellis told in to something that could be adapted into a feature film. Richard Alan Reid, Jason Moring and Michael Philip of BuzzFeed Studios produced
Dear Dave. Dan Lin serves as executive producer alongside Evan Turner and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback.What did you think of the
Dear David trailer? Will you be watching the movie in October? Please let us know what you think by leaving a message below.
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