{"id":577164,"date":"2026-03-31T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:06:08","slug":"michael-shanks-teams-with-adam-mckay-for-mystery-sci-fi-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577164\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Shanks Teams with Adam McKay for Mystery Sci-Fi Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/michael-shanks\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-shanks_1\" data-tag=\"michael-shanks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Shanks<\/a>, the filmmaker behind last year\u2019s cult horror fave Together, has teamed up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/adam-mckay\/\" id=\"auto-tag_adam-mckay_1\" data-tag=\"adam-mckay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam McKay<\/a>, the multi-faceted writer-director-producer behind movies such as Vice and Don\u2019t Look Up, for a mystery project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSony Pictures has picked up an untitled sci-fi comedy that will be written by Shanks that has McKay attached to direct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMcKay is producing the feature with Todd Schulman via the duo\u2019s Hyperobject Industries banner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAndrew Mittman, who is one of the executive producers on Wednesday and involved in the development of Tim Burton\u2019s remake of B-movie classic\u00a0Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, is also producing via his 1.21 Pictures. The company\u2019s Kai Dolbashian will exec produce. The two worked in the same capacity with Shanks on Together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDetails on the project are being kept under wraps but it is described as a sci-fi comedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShanks got his start making YouTube and online shorts before making his feature directorial debut with Together, the unique body horror that starred Dave Franco and Alison Brie. The movie premiered at the 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival where it sparked a bidding war, with Neon ultimately picking it up in a $17 million deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHis next film is due to be a feature project titled Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, a mind-bending sci-fi thriller set up at A24 and whose script, which he wrote, was on the 2021 Black List. The project was the first team up for the writer-director with McKay and Schulman, who are among those producing Hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMcKay, whose films run the genre gamut from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Talladega Nights to The Big Short and Vice to episodes of Succession and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. He last directed 2021\u2019s Don\u2019t Look Up, a satire with an A-list cast that became one of Netflix\u2019s most watched movies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHyperobject remains a busy banner. Among its upcoming projects is a mini-series centered on Jeffey Epstein, based on the book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by Julie K. Brown, with Laura Dern on board to star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShanks is repped by WME, Untitled and attorney Chris Abramson. McKay is repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Shanks, the filmmaker behind last year\u2019s cult horror fave Together, has teamed up with Adam McKay, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[260303,64,63,134,18113,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-577164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-adam-mckay","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-michael-shanks","13":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}