'Come Closer' set at Miramax
Fashion photographer Smith to direct
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Tristine Skyler will pen the screenplay, adapting from a novel by Sara Gran.
Story concerns a woman who may be possessed by unseen forces or simply may be losing her mind.
Miramax plans to go into production early next year.
"Come Closer" has a complicated history. It was originally developed as more of a straight thriller at Dimension when the Weinsteins were still at Miramax, with "Wings of the Dove" scribe Hossein Amini penning the screenplay.
But the project went on the backburner after the Weinsteins split from the Disney fold. Amini, who had written a draft, then moved on to other projects.
Miramax exec David Greenbaum revived it, however, after seeing Smith's acclaimed short "Bugcrush" and deciding the young director would be a good fit for the material. He then signed him to helm a more literary adaptation. Smith is directing DreamWorks' "The Ruins," which Ben Stiller's Red Hour shingle is producing.
Skyler is a playwright who was attached last week to adapt "The Bell Jar" as a Julia Stiles vehicle.
Gran is a genre fiction writer who last year published the noir "Dope." "Come Closer" was named by several publication as the scariest novel of the year when it came out in 2003.
