Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's claim to fame was the phony relationship documentary Catfish, a film that launched an MTV series and brought "catfishing" into the national spotlight. They took their social media savvy to the next level with two of the more visually inventive Paranormal Activity movies, and now they're back with Blumhouse Productions for a thriller that sounds pretty straight forward.
The duo will direct Viral, with Analeigh Tipton (Warm Bodies, Crazy Stupid Love) tapped to star. Barbara Marshall originally penned the Black List-approved script that has Tipton playing Susan, "whose suburban life with her parents and sister Emma is upturned when a lethal parasitic virus spreads to their neighborhood and they’re trapped within their quarantined city along with the increasingly violent infected."
Christopher Landon, who wrote Joost and Schulman's Paranormal Activity films, has given the film a rewrite, and it's probably not out of the realm of possibility he adds some "found footage" element to it.
