AWA Studios announced filmmaker James Ashcroft has signed on to direct a feature film adaptation of Old Haunts, a horror/gangster graphic novel.
Ashcroft is best known for Coming Home In the Dark, which premiered in the Midnight Section at The Sundance Film Festival in 2021. He will be directing the Old Haunts adaptation from a script by in-demand scribe Aaron Rabin, who is just off of the newly launched Marvel series, Secret Invasion.
Blending the horror and gangster genres, Old Haunts follows three made men standing on the brink of retirement, who find their unbreakable bond put to the test when they are suddenly assaulted by the ghosts of their past. Confronted by decades of buried secrets – resentments, affairs, double-crosses, and murders – the three friends have no choice but to unearth the deepest, darkest sin from their past and pray they don’t find an empty grave. The original comic series was written by Ollie Masters (The Kitchen, Snow Blind) and Rob Williams (Out, Low Life, Ghost Rider), drawn by artist Laurence Campbell (Breathing Space, The Punisher, BPRD), colored by Lee Loughridge, lettered by Sal Cipriano, and edited by AWA Founder and Chief Creative Officer Axel Alonso.
“I’ve always been drawn to the thrill of a sophisticated ghost story, but it’s the literal ghosts of one’s past – the specters of regret, hubris and trauma – that are often the most terrifying,” said Ashcroft in a press release from AWA Studios. “This is what lies at the dark heart of Old Haunts, and I couldn’t be more excited about realizing it for the screen with this incredible company of collaborators.”
