DreamWorks Shuts Down Ghost Story 'Haunted' Weeks Before Start Date (Exclusive)
Though $5 million had been invested in the project, the studio wasn't prepared to proceed.
DreamWorks has pulled the plug on Haunted, an under-the-radar movie that was just weeks away from beginning filming. The studio had commissioned a quick, partial rewrite of the script by director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and Scott Z. Burns (Contagion). But it ultimately decided that the project, a ghost tale said to have been inspired by Henry James' 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw, was not ready to go into production. DreamWorks is said to have sunk about $5 million into preparing the film, which had a budget of about $17 million.
