Although not quite horror, Mandate Pictures has acquired the remake rights to Danish helmer Ole Bornedal’s The Substitute, which enters on a sixth-grade class and its substitute teacher who turns out to be an alien. The film has been set up at Columbia and is being developed separately from the main Mandate slate, under Ghost House Pictures, the genre label Mandate runs in concert with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. The original film arrives on DVD October 14th from Ghost House Underground and Lionsgate.
