Searchlight Pictures has acquired the rights to “Dust,” a psychological horror film that will star “The Crown” actress Claire Foy, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
“Dust” was introduced to buyers at the virtual Cannes marketplace in June, and Searchlight will now develop further develop the project.
Will Joines and Karrie Crouse, who previously collaborated on the short film “Propagation,” will direct “Dust” from a script that Crouse wrote. The script was developed at the Sundance Writer’s Lab.
In “Dust,” Foy is trapped by increasingly horrific dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma. She plays a young mother haunted by the past who becomes convinced that a mysterious presence is threatening her family and takes extraordinary measures to protect them.