Jason Blum and James Wan have teamed up once again. Produced under Atomic Monster and Blumhouse Productions, Night Swim — based on a 2014 short film of the same name — has been officially rated PG-13 by the MPA due to its “terror” and “violent content.”
“Everything you fear is under the surface”
Scheduled to hit theaters on January 5, 2024, the Bryce McGuire-directed feature follows a family of four who have suddenly awakened a dark entity in the backyard pool of their new home.
The synopsis for Night Swim reads as follows: “In the film, Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, who moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve, teenage daughter Izzy, and young son Elliot. Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home’s shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home’s past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family under, into the depths of inescapable terror.”
It is still unknown whether Night Swim will closely follow the premise of the original short film, but given that McGuire — who also helmed the short film — is the filmmaker behind the upcoming horror movie, audiences can expect a faithful adaptation.
Executive produced by Michael Clear, Judson Scott, and Ryan Turek, Night Swim will be led by The Banshees of Inisherin‘s Kerry Condon, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Wyatt Russell, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ Amélie Hoeferle, and Fear the Walking Dead’s Gavin Warren.
