Michael Abels (Get Out, Us, Bad Education, Allen v. Farrow, See You Yesterday) has composed the original music for the upcoming Netflix original film Nightbooks. The movie is directed by David Yarovesky (Brightburn, The Hive) and stars Winslow Fegley, Lidya Jewett and Krysten Ritter. The movie based on the horror-fantasy children’s book of the same title by J.A. White revolves around a boy obsessed with scary stories who is trapped by an evil witch in her magical apartment and must tell a scary story every night to stay alive. Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis (Five Feet Apart, The Curse of La Llorona) wrote the screenplay. Sam Raimi (Spider-Man, The Evil Dead) & Rob Tapert (Don’t Breathe, The Grudge) are producing the project for Ghost House Pictures, alongside Mason Novick (500 Days of Summer, Young Adult) and Michelle Knudsen (Queen & Slim) for MXN Entertainment. Nightbooks will premiere on September 15, 2021 exclusively on Netflix.
Abels’ other upcoming projects also include Jordan Peele’s Nope and Stephen Williams’ Chevalier.
