Drew Hancock is not waiting. Less than two years after Companion premiered for New Line, the writer-director has set his follow-up at Amazon MGM: Seasons, a horror film starring Lily James. The project was previously titled My Wife and I Bought a Ranch, according to Deadline.
The film adapts a viral Reddit horror story by Matt and Harrison Query, later expanded into a novel. A husband and wife buy their dream ranch, discover the land is home to ancient spirits, and find that survival requires submitting to "increasingly disturbing rituals with each turn of the season." Hancock is also writing the screenplay.
Producers include Shawn Levy and Dan Levine of 21 Laps, Jason Blum and Michael Clear of Atomic Monster, Scott Glassgold of 12:01 Films, and Dan Cohen. Seasons is the third production to unite 21 Laps and Atomic Monster, after Backrooms at A24.
Companion established Hancock as a filmmaker with precise control over genre compression: tight premises, steadily worsening odds, and a clinical detachment from its own brutality. Seasons trades the confined interior for open land, but the mechanism is familiar. The setting is the trap. The rituals replace any illusion of free will.
No production timeline has been set.