“Cloverfield” and “Lost” creator JJ Abrams is to make a new mystery movie: “Mystery on Fifth Avenue,” based on a New York Times article. Writers Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky have been hired to adapt it into a film, with Marc Evans overseeing for the studio.
Variety reports that Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to the article by Penny Green about the owners of a New York house who discovered secret panels and hidden clues in their home which led them on a scavenger hunt.
The trade daily says the mystery involved “a poem, a book, a soundtrack and a host of historical figures”.
Abrams will produce the film through his company, Bad Robot.“Cloverfield” Creator J.J. Abrams to Produce “Mystery on Fifth Avenue”
“Cloverfield” and “Lost” creator JJ Abrams is to make a new mystery movie: “Mystery on Fifth Avenue,” based on a New York Times article. Writers Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky have been hired to adapt it into a film, with Marc Evans overseeing for the studio.
Variety reports that Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to the article by Penny Green about the owners of a New York house who discovered secret panels and hidden clues in their home which led them on a scavenger hunt.
The trade daily says the mystery involved “a poem, a book, a soundtrack and a host of historical figures”.
Abrams will produce the film through his company, Bad Robot.
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