The studio bought the rights Winchester, Helen Mirren’s upcoming film about the heiress to the gun manufacturing dynasty, from Bullitt Entertainment and Diamond Pictures.
Winchester will be directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, the brother who made Predestination.
Turns out the film has a release date and will be hitting us right after Valentine's Day next year on Inspired by true events, WINCHESTER follows the story of firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), who was convinced that she was haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester Repeating Rifle.
After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she threw herself into the 24-hours a day, seven days a week construction of an enormous mansion designed to keep the evil spirits at bay.
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Mirren will play Sarah Winchester, the firearm heiress with the guilty conscience.
According to the official synopsis: “Winchester tells the strange and dramatic tale of Sarah Winchester, who was heir to the Winchester firearms fortune.
In the early morning hours of September 2, 2003, Sarah Johnson ran out of her home, screaming for help.
She told neighbors that her parents had just been murdered.
Deadline reports that Winchester is slated to come out on February 23rd, 2018, the same day Pacific Rim: Uprising stomps into theaters.