Alice Eve (“Belgravia,” Star Trek) has signed to star in The Queen Mary, the first in a trilogy of highly anticipated feature horror films inspired by the hauntings on-board the infamous ocean liner. Gary Shore (Dracula Untold) will direct the film based on a screenplay written by Shore and Stephen Oliver, and Tom Vaughan.
Docked in Long Beach, California, the multi-storied ocean liner, named Time Magazine’s most haunted place in the world, receives two million visitors each year, drawn by its amazing history and legend.
“We were immediately obsessed with Gary’s intelligent and twisted multi-film take on a great American legend and could not be more excited working with an extremely gifted actor in bringing this story to audiences around the world,” said film producer Brett Tomberlin of Imagination Design Works.
Gary Shore added, “I’m fascinated, obsessed, and disturbed by this ship – there’s something very dark and human about her. It’s a stylistic tightrope between reverence and horror.”
Shore made his feature film debut in 2014 with the horror fantasy epic Dracula Untold for Universal Pictures. The film was a global success amassing $215M at the worldwide box office, hitting number one in over thirty countries.
The film is being developed and produced by Brett Tomberlin of Imagination Design Works, along with Nigel Sinclair and Nicholas Ferrall of White Horse Pictures (The Woman in Black), Thorsten Schumacher, and Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science (Resistance), and Jason Newmark and Laurie Cook of Newscope.
Tobin Armbrust will executive produce together with White Horse’s Cassidy Hartmann. Andy Trapani, Brian Gilbert, and Steve Sheldon of Epic Entertainment Group will also serve as Executive Producers. White Horse Pictures’ Jeanne Elfant Festa will co-executive produce. Tom Vaughan will co-produce. Mali Elfman is producing alongside Mark Tomberlin and Jordan Rambis, who are executive producing as part of Imagination Design Works. Rocket Science is on board to fully finance and represent worldwide distribution rights.
