Sony Pictures Acquires Casey Giltner Thriller Spec ‘This Land Is Our Land’

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Casey Giltner has sold elevated thriller spec This Land Is Our Land to Sony Pictures, Deadline has learned.

Plot details are being kept under wraps. Andrew Form, of the A Quiet Place franchise, will produce alongside Lawdie Pahlavan.

Giltner is a screenwriter and novelist whose holiday horror spec On The First Day of Christmas made the 2021 Blood List. He’s also co-writer on Speak, a ventriloquist dummy horror thriller starring Josh Duhamel that we scooped last month. Coming off the August release of his debut novel, a horror-thriller titled Home School, he is repped by Independent Artist Group, Zero Gravity Management and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

Recent months have brought a veritable flood of Sony news. Circling a Battlefield adaptation teaming Michael B. Jordan and Christopher McQuarrie, the studio has also recently added cast to films including Fake Skating, Narcs, Hollow and the Tom Holland-led Fred Astaire biopic; dated titles like Treasure Island and 24 Jump Street; and acquired Michelle Yeoh’s Thunder Road action thriller The Surgeon, with Sony Pictures Worldwide snapping up all international rights to the indie horror breakout Buddy. Screen Gems has set Michael Lewen to direct its high-concept comedy White Knight, with Maia Eyre elevating at Columbia to EVP Creative Development.

Recently, in our Dish column, we reported that Sony is prepping a Spider-Man: Brand New Day re-release featuring extra footage following the success of Disney’s re-release for Avengers: Endgame.