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John Logan, the openly gay writer of Skyfall, Sweeney Todd, Gladiator, Hugo and Rango has announced his next project: Whistler Camp, a horror film set in a queer conversion therapy camp. Logan will also make his directorial debut with the film.
The three-time Oscar nominee will write the film for Blumhouse Productions, the independent horror studio behind Get Out and the Insidious series. Deadline reports that Blumhouse pitched the film as a “queer empowerment” story and also initiated a casting search. No word on when filming will begin, nor on a potential release date.
“We wanted to make a movie with #JohnLogan and he came up with the * perfect * idea,” Blumhouse president Jason Blum said via Twitter. Blum will personally produce the film alongside Penny Dreadful producer Michael Aguilar.
John Logan reached the pinnacle of showbiz with his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Gladiator in 2000. He has since enjoyed great success writing in Hollywood and on the Broadway stage where his play Red won a Tony Award in 2010. His series Penny Dreadful combined. his horror love for LGBTQ themes, which helped solidify his success for a three-season race.
Conversion therapy, on the other hand, has been denounced by virtually every medical and psychiatric organization in the United States as an ineffective and harmful form of torture. Several states have legally prohibited the practice for this reason.
