{"id":7387,"date":"2023-10-17T22:48:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=7387"},"modified":"2023-11-10T22:51:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T22:51:08","slug":"wrap-vertical-that-way-10-17-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wrap-vertical-that-way-10-17-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertical Picks Up Jacob Elordi-Zachary Quinto Serial Killer Thriller \u2018He Went That Way\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-348\" src=\"http:\/\/vqt.nlm.mybluehost.me\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thewrap-logo-e1586916472472.png\" alt=\"Logo for The Wrap\" width=\"300\" height=\"39\"><\/p>\n<h1>Vertical Picks Up Jacob Elordi-Zachary Quinto Serial Killer Thriller \u2018He Went That Way\u2019: <\/h1>\n<p>Vertical has acquired domestic distribution rights to \u201cHe Went That Way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Jeffrey Darling, the film tells the true story of a celebrity animal handler (Zachary Quinto, Spock in the Bad Robot-produced \u201cStar Trek\u201d films) who picked up a young hitchhiker who turned out to be a serial murderer. Jacob Elordi plays the diabolical deviant. He broke out in Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe Kissing Booth\u201d trilogy and has starred in the likes of \u201cSaltburn\u201d and \u201cPriscilla.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patrick J. Adams of \u201cSuits\u201d fame stars. That decade-old USA legal comedy inexplicably became a streaming sensation on Netflix this past summer.<\/p>\n<p>Penned by Evan M. Weiner, \u201cHe Went That Way\u201d had its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. Vertical plans to release the film in theaters in early 2024. It is inspired by Conrad Hillberry\u2019s book, \u201cLuke Karamazov\u201d and the real-life account of Dave Pitts\u2019 encounter with Larry Lee Ranes. Pitts was the sole survivor in Ranes\u2019 killing spree.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Benardout, Hugh Broder, Jeremy L Kotin, James Harris and Mark Lane of Teashop Productions produced the picture. Along with Quinto and Elordi, executive producers include Phil Hunt of Head Gear Films and Bohemia Media, Medha Jaishankar, Compton Ross, Ananyaa Shah, Lisa Broder, Richard Broder and Lawrence August.<\/p>\n<p>The producing team stated: \u201cWe were so thrilled by the audience response at Tribeca and delighted that Vertical will be bringing this story to theaters. It\u2019s been an eighteen-year journey to bring this story to life and now stands as a legacy to our director, the late Jeffrey Darling, who passed away during post-production. Jacob and Zachary brought such an intensity and smart approach to the characters in a story steeped in instinct, infatuation, and incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vertical Entertainment partner Peter Jarowey and SVP of acquisitions Tony Piantedosi negotiated the deal on behalf of Vertical. Mister Smith\u2019s CEO David Garrett and VP International Sales &#038; Distribution Shane Kelly negotiated the deal on behalf of the production.<\/p>\n<p>Jarowey commented: \u201cWe were enthralled by Jacob and Zachary\u2019s gritty chemistry when we watched the film at Tribeca and knew immediately this would be a story audiences would find captivating. We look forward to working with Mister Smith on another collaboration, as we did on \u2018The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry\u2019 and \u2018The Hating Game\u2019 and building upon the success of \u2018He Went That Way\u2019 together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>View this article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/he-went-that-way-jacob-elordi-zachary-quinto-vertical\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vertical Picks Up Jacob Elordi-Zachary Quinto Serial Killer Thriller \u2018He Went That Way\u2019: Vertical has acquired domestic distribution rights to \u201cHe Went That Way.\u201d Directed by Jeffrey Darling, the film tells the true story of a celebrity animal handler (Zachary Quinto, Spock in the Bad Robot-produced \u201cStar Trek\u201d films) who picked up a young hitchhiker<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wrap-vertical-that-way-10-17-23\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,51,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elsa-ramo","category-mary-trier","category-the-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7389,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions\/7389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}