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Laika Taps ‘Suspiria’ & ‘Bones And All’ Scribe Dave Kajganich To Pen Travis Knight’s ‘Piranesi’
The 'Piranesi' movie being developed at Laika has named Dave Kajganich as its screenwriter, with Travis Knight still set to direct.
EXCLUSIVE: Laika has drafted Dave Kajganich, the hot screenwriter currently working on projects with Oscar-winning directors Barry Jenkins, Ridley Scott and Edward Berger, to pen its stop-motion adaptation of Piranesi, the internationally bestselling fantasy novel by Susanna Clarke. In addition to creating the critically acclaimed AMC series The Terror, about the disastrous 1845 Franklin Expedition to find the Northwest Passage, Kajganich has written three scripts for director Luca Guadagnino: A Bigger Splash, Suspiria, which he also produced, and the 2022 horror romance Bones and All, starring Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet. The studio’s live-action division also continues to develop projects including action thriller Seventeen; Crumble, to be written and directed by Brian Duffield, with Phil Lord and Chris Miller producing; and an untitled pic marking the directorial debut of Dune scribe Jon Spaihts.
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