EXCLUSIVE: After winning rights earlier this year to Motherboy — the 2024 Black List script by nurse-turned-screenwriter Tess Brewer — in a highly competitive situation, Di Novi Pictures has enlisted Alan Scott Neal to direct the thriller.

Marking Neal’s sophomore feature on the heels of horror thriller Last Straw , Motherboy follows a woman trapped by a snowstorm at her husband’s remote childhood home with him and his manipulative mother. While there, she begins to uncover dark, buried family secrets that her husband’s mother would do anything to keep hidden.

Set to produce alongside Denise Di Novi and Oliver Scherick for Di Novi Pictures, Margaret French Isaac told us, “When Oliver Scherick on our team introduced us to Tess’s chilling, brilliant spec script Motherboy ,

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