I truly believe you can speak something into existence, and that’s exactly what has happened with the directors of the Netflix hit Don’t Move, which was produced by Sam Raimi.
DREAD CENTRAL has learned exclusively that Don’t Move directors Brian Netto and Adam Schindler have indeed been developing the next Darkman for Raimi and Ghost House Pictures.
Raimi first worked with the duo on the Quibi series “50 States of Fright,” which led to Ghost House producing Don’t Move, a thrilling psychological horror film in which a seasoned killer injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent, and she must run, fight, and hide before her body shuts down.
The saga began in 2024, when Netto and Schindler told The Hollywood Reporter that their dream project was to bring a new Darkman to life. Raimi wrote and directed the 1990 superhero thriller that starred Liam Neeson as a brilliant scientist left for dead who returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.
“If we’re talking Sam-related, it’s Darkman,” Schindler said back in 2024. “We talked about Darkman [with him]. We’ve got a love and an affinity for Darkman.”
Netto added, “Darkman was my favorite film for a good portion of my life. It was the movie, so Darkman would be really interesting.”
Raimi tips his hat to this scoop in a recent interview with Movieweb: “Ghost House Pictures, the company I work with, is trying to make it [Darkman] right now,” Raimi told the site while touring Send Help, in theaters this Friday. “We have a script and two great directors, but we still have some difficulties with the financing. It always happens the same in the movie business.”
Netto and Schindler are also directing Every House Is Haunted for Raimi and Ghost House, which was announced just last week.
Darkman was followed by two sequels, Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995) and Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996).
It’s been 30 years since Darkman saw the light of day.
