EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has preemptively acquired the original horror script Suffer Little Children from writer-director, Rodrigue Huart. Huart will direct from a script he wrote with Walter Hamada producing through his 18Hz Productions under the company’s output deal at the studio, alongside producer and rightsholder Pablo Cruz, who will produce through his Canana banner. Nick Romano will executive produce for 18Hz Productions.
The project is a reimagining of the 1976 Spanish horror film Who Can Kill A Child?, which has garnered cult classic status. Plot details are under wraps, but the original film follows a couple who travels to a remote island for vacation, but they soon realize that all the adults on the island have been killed. The 1976 film was directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador and is based on the novel El Juego De Los Ninos by Juan José Plans.
Additional projects with 18Hz Productions include Primate, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, Two Truths and a Lie and an untitled horror film from director André Øvredal.
As for Huart, the multi-hyphenate has become one of the more exciting up-and-coming filmmakers in the genre realm and recently won the Midnight Short Jury Award at SXSW 2024 for his modern vampire story Transylvanie. Since then, Rodrigue has directed two short films combining digital horror and found footage in Trigger and Real, which premiered at Fantasia 2024.
Huart is represented by Range Media Partners and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
