The next installment of the hugely popular Paranormal Activity franchise has found its writers. Jason Pagan and Andrew Stark will pen Paranormal Activity 5 for Paramount. Read down below for more info on the news.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount has captured its next victims — we mean, writers — to pen Paranormal Activity 5.
Jason Pagan and Andrew Stark will write the latest installment of the scary movie franchise, which has so far made more than $718 million worldwide.
A Latin-themed spinoff titled Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is due to be released Jan. 3, 2014. Paranormal Activity 5 is set for an Oct. 24, 2014, open.
No plot details have emerged but as the process for these movies go, Pagan and Stark will write scriptments that will serve as the basis for the found footage movie.
Jason Blum and Oren Peli are once again producing.
Pagan and Stark are already well-entrenched in that lucrative genre and at Paramount in general: They wrote Almanac, the Michael Bay–produced found footage sci-fi thriller that the studio will release Feb. 28, 2014.
