
Variety is reporting that Focus Features, the indie wing of monolithic Universal Pictures that has had a great year so far with sleeper hits in the stop-motion-animated marvel "ParaNorman" and the Wes Anderson romp "Moonrise Kingdom," has just acquired an untitled thriller pitch from "Compliance" director Craig Zobel. Zobel will write and direct the movie. Plot specifics are being kept under wraps, so we can go ahead and wildly speculate that it's about a vampire that falls in love with a robot but their love is put to the test when they uncover a conspiracy to assassinate the president of Uganda. Zobel, whose Sundance stunner "Compliance" is currently in limited release, is on something of a hot streak. The David Gordon Green protégé and collaborator recently signed on to direct "Z for Zachariah," a Black List-placing script by Nissar Nodi, based on the Edgar-winning posthumously published novel by Robert C....
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