The film is the first title of a multi-picture deal between L.A. and UAE-based production company Longevity Pictures, indie genre label Spooky Pictures and Abu Dhabi’s Image Nation Studios. Originally published in the “NoSleep” subreddit — the online community dedicated to user-generated horror fiction — “Future Me” follows a man “who receives a deeply unsettling email from his past self via the ‘FutureMe’ website, a message that draws him down a terrifying and increasingly surreal rabbit hole,” according to its synopsis. The horror comedy premiered at SXSW in 2022 before being acquired by Shudder, where it became one of the genre streaming platform’s most acclaimed original releases.
They followed that success by directing the fan-favorite segment “To Hell and Back” in found-footage horror anthology film “V/H/S/99.” Joseph and Vanessa Winter’s next project is the previously announced film “Amityville,” a radical new spin on the Amityville Horror franchise, based on Jay Anson’s book that was published in 1977 about the paranormal experiences of the George Lutz family. The book led to nine films between 1979 and 2005. Lifshitz, principals of genre-focused production label BoulderLight Pictures.
Joseph and Vanessa Winter’s upcoming “Future Me” will instead be produced by Majd Nassif (“Mercy”) for Longevity Pictures, alongside Steven Schneider (“Late Night With the Devil”) and Roy Lee (“Weapons,” “Barbarian”) for Spooky Pictures. Image Nation Studios’ Ben Ross (“Watcher,” “Late Night With the Devil”) and Longevity Pictures’ Aysel Lyatifova, (“Six Till Midnight”) will executive produce. Other titles on their multi-picture slate remain to be unveiled.
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