‘Wolf Night’: Hot Platinum Dunes Package With Filmmaker Jonathan Liebesman Making Rounds

Anthony D'Alessandro and Justin Kroll
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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a big one that multiple studios are bidding on right now from Platinum Dunes: Wolf Night.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles filmmaker Jonathan Liebesman is attached to direct on a screenplay that’s being billed as District 9 by way of The Purge — but with werewolves. Will Honley and April Maguire wrote Wolf Night.

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Liebesman is a South African filmmaker whose movies have grossed $1.3 billion at the global box office; his titles include Platinum Dunes’ 2014 live-action reboot of Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Warner Bros’ Wrath of the Titans, Sony’s Battle Los Angeles, New Line’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and Revolution Studios/Sony’s Darkness Falls. He’s an EP on the MTV series The Shannara Chronicles and directed four episodes of Paramount+’s Halo series. Liebesman also executive produced the Universal Robert Downey Jr. family movie Dolittle.

Michael Bay and Brad Fuller’s Platinum Dunes has a big summer event movie coming up at Paramount in Quiet Place: Day One, starring Lupita Nyong’o and directed by Michael Sarnoski, which hits theaters June 28.

Liebesman is repped by CAA, Artists First and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.

Honley wrote the movies Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, Blood, Bloodline and The Hive. Maguire and Honley just co-penned the Megan Fox and Madeline Zima sci-fi thriller Subservience from Millennium Media.

Honley is represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, MGMT Entertainment and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis. Maguire is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, MGMT Entertainment and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.

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