Russell Brand is set to headline Paramount Pictures and Platinum Dunes’ The Hauntrepreneur , Variety reports.
Scott Rosenberg, the screenwriter behind Con Air , High Fidelity and many more, sold his original spec script to Paramount last summer .
The story, a supernatural children’s tale, is said to evoke qualities of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and deals with a family who enlist the aide of a “Hauntrepreneur” to build them a haunted house in their new neighborhood.
Brand appeared last year in Hop and Arthur and can soon be seen in the Adam Shankman musical, Rock of Ages . Strangely, he was also once attached to the similarly-themed Rentaghost , though that project is currently set to star Ben Stiller.
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