Noah Hawley, the Emmy winner known for creating FX’s Fargo and Alien: Earth, will direct and produce a reimagining of Terrified, the supernatural horror film from Argentina’s Demián Rugna, for Warner Bros., Deadline has confirmed.
Released in 2017, Terrified (Aterrados) follows a team of paranormal investigators as they probe a series of inexplicable, terrifying events in a Buenos Aires neighborhood, uncovering a malevolent force that defies logic. Developing the project in close collaboration with Rugna — the filmmaker otherwise best known for the IFC/Shudder flick When Evil Lurks — Hawley will produce under his Austin-based banner, 26 Keys.
Best known for creating, showrunning, exec producing, writing and directing FX’s anthology series Fargo, based on the iconic Coen Brothers film, which has won seven Emmys from 70 nominations over the course of its five seasons, Hawley more recently created, wrote and showran Alien: Earth, a series expanding the Alien universe, which released its first season on Hulu and FX last August and is returning for a second.
Hawley released his debut feature Lucy in the Sky with Fox Searchlight in 2019 and has also published six novels: A Conspiracy of Tall Men, Other People’s Weddings, The Punch, The Good Father, Before the Fall and Anthem. THR was first to the news of his involvement with Terrified.