Jacob Chase is packing his sleeping bag. The filmmaker is staying in the Blumhouse Atomic Monster business, and will direct Sleepover for the company after helming last weekend’s Insidious: Out of the Further. The project is moving fast, with Universal setting an Oct. 8, 2028 release date for the movie.
Chase co-wrote the script with Night Swim filmmaker Bryce McGuire. The plot is being kept under wraps, but is described as the “quintessential sleepover nightmare” and is based on an original short story by McGuire.
The announcement comes after Out of the Further opened to $25.3 million domestically, a solid start for the sixth installment of the franchise. Chase has been in the Blumhouse Atomic Monster business for several years, developing various properties before Out of the Further emerged. He previously directed the feature Come Play, an Amblin Partners. The feature bowed at the Halloween box office in October 2020 and was based on his own 2017 short about a parking lot attendant haunted by a monster who emerges from touchscreen gagets.
Cinescape Entertainment is behind Sleepover, working with Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Universal. Jason Blum is producing w,th Chase, McGuire, and Bea Sequeira serve as executive producers. Lilly Tyson oversees the project for Blumhouse Atomic Monster.
