Read The Screenplay By Bryan Woods & Scott Beck

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay continues with Heretic, A24‘s psychological horror movie from the A Quiet Place duo of Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.

Hugh Grant takes a jackhammer to his popularity for enjoying an absolute charmer by embodying the fiendish Mr. Reed, a house owner who at first look appears to pleased to speak concerning the good Lord with a pair of religious missionaries named Sister Barnes (Yellowjackets‘ Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East of The Fabelmans) from the Church of Latter Day Saints.

“Individuals assume we’re bizarre,” admits Sister Paxton. “That South Park musical sort of makes enjoyable of us.”

However the two younger missionaries are then pressured to show their religion by changing into ensnared in his lethal sport of cat-and-mouse with Reed. Deadline’s Damon Wise describes the movie as “a genuinely completely different sort of horror, one which makes use of conventions from all throughout the style — from the previous darkish home film to the straight-up slasher flick — and places them within the service of a playful script that makes some significantly subversive feedback concerning the world at this time.”

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The film kicks off by really evoking the sensation of a fairy story. “Right here’s even the picture of Paxton and Barnes strolling as much as the home, and I can determine that it does have a fairytale high quality,” Beck told Deadline last month, earlier than the script landed a Spirit Awards nomination and Grant scored appearing noms from the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards. “I feel there’s additionally a level at which, as a result of we’re dealing in spiritual discourse, a lot of holy tales are parables. They’ve relationships to fairytales. You might even argue that lots of them are fairytales as a result of there’s a story that you may’t essentially show occurred, however there may be classes that may be extracted from there. And I feel that’s how we see Heretic, to a sure diploma: The depictions of the story, even the truth of Mormon missionaries going door to door, we’re telling a narrative about that. We’re not telling a factual story, essentially.”

Beck and Woods directed Heretic from their very own script after breaking out writing the unique screenplay for A Quiet Place, sharing writing credit with John Krasinski on the 2018 motion thriller that grossed $341 million worldwide and spawned a sequel. That script, additionally adept at mixing style components, earned WGA and Critics Selection nominations. Their writing credit since embody Sony’s 65 starring Adam Driver and twentieth Century Studios’ The Boogeyman based mostly on the Stephen King brief story (and likewise starring Thatcher).

The writing-producing duo additionally produced Heretic alongside Julia Glausi, Stacey Sher and Jeanette Volturno. It made its world premiere at the Toronto Movie Competition and hit theaters in early November.

Try the Heretic script under.