Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things, Ghostbusters: Afterlife) is set to make his directorial debut alongside Afterlife co-star Billy Bryk with Hell of a Summer, a horror-comedy slasher that NEON have officially picked up for a 2025 release.
Along with directing, Wolfhard and Bryk also wrote the film and will star, alongside Fred Hechinger (Fear Street 1994), D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs), Abby Quinn (Mad About You), and Pardis Saremi (Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem).
According to Variety:
Hell of a Summer follows counselors who are getting Camp Pineway ready the night before campers arrive when a masked killer begins slaughtering the staff.
Wolfhard and Bryk have said they wrote the film, which premiered at Toronto Film Festival in 2023, with a goal of upending Gen Z stereotypes:
“Our No. 1 conversation was how annoying it is to see new teen movies and how badly our age group is represented […] And we’re like, ‘Why don’t we just do it?’”
Hell of a Summer was produced by Aggregate Films’ Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan, Parts & Labor’s Jay Van Hoy, Wolfhard, Bryk and Hechinger, with3 0West executive producing.
While NEON haven't set a specific date for release yet, we can't imagine it'll be anything less than a roaring hit, given the success of their 2023 slate, which has included Longlegs, Immaculate and Cuckoo (among many others!)
We'll bring you more updates on Hell of a Summer as they roll in.
Welcome to Camp Pineway. HELL OF A SUMMER.
A film by Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk. In theaters 2025. pic.twitter.com/wT1MiFUOVY
— NEON (@neonrated) August 20, 2024
