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Kosar Takes on Another Haunting with Witherspoon
Friday, October 20, 2006


By: MrDisgusting
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The Bell Witch Haunting is one of the most infamous and legitimate recorded hauntings in the history of mankind and over the past few years has become a favorite topic among the film industry. With films like The Bell Witch Haunting and An American Haunting already out larger studios are backing higher end products of the same story. Read on for the latest, Bell Witch, which puts Scott Kosar writing another haunting with Reese Witherspoon set to star.

Scott Kosar, who scripted genre hits "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Amityville Horror," has been tapped by Universal and Reese Witherspoon's Type A banner to write "Bell Witch," according to Variety

Project is being fashioned as a star vehicle for Witherspoon, whose company got involved when U bought the Don Winston spec "Our Family Troubles" (Daily Variety, Dec. 16).

Story follows a new mom so haunted by unexplained phenomena that she doubts her sanity. She fixates on the legend of the Bell Witch and becomes convinced that an evil spirit is out to harm her baby.

Witherspoon is producing with Type A Films partner Jennifer Simpson.

Kosar, whose credits include Christian Bale starrer "The Machinist," is also working on a remake of George Romero pic "The Crazies."


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