THE EVIL DEAD director Sam Raimi has launched a news production banner to make thrillers for family audience, so says Variety. Spooky Pictures will first remake the Danish film THE SUBSTITUTE, which THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE helmer Scott Derrickson will direct. The trade says that Columbia Pictures will co-finance and distribute through a first-look deal with Spooky. Derrickson will also write the script for the aforementioned film with Paul Harris Boardman. The film revolves around a terrified sixth-grade class as the students race to reveal to their parents that their new substitute teacher is an evil alien being. Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert will produce.
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