Ringu Helmer Finds Terror In ‘Chatroom’
Hideo Nakata, the Japanese helmer of THE RING TWO, RINGU and DARK WATER, is to direct Chatroom, a psychological thriller about teenagers who encourage each other’s destructive behavior. The pic is being sold by new sales company WestEnd Films and will be Nakata’s first original helming effort in English. CHATROOM was written by Enda Walsh as an adaptation of his own stage play. “Nakata has come up with something very visual, very conceptual, and situated somewhere between ‘Disturbia’ and ‘Cube,’ ” said WestEnd founder Eve Schoukroun.