Craven Waiting In Wings

[J.A.F._Doorhof]

Wes Craven, director of Nightmare on Elm Street, will produce The Waiting, a supernatural thriller film based on a spec script by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, Variety reported. Craven's Dimension-based Craven/Maddalena Films company bought the script, described as a film in the tradition of The Omen and What Lies Beneath, the trade paper reported.

The Waiting tells the story of a woman who recently lost her child and is visited by the spirit of another deceased child, whom she mistakes for her own.