According to THR, New Line has acquired the rights to Nico van den Brink’s short Sweet Tooth, which premiered at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival back in July.
While Andrés Muschietti’s IT keeps breaking box office records, New Line Cinema is preparing a new horror film by adapting the Dutch horror short Sweet Tooth into a feature film.
New Line Cinema will hire a writer to expand the story into a feature, with van den Brink getting a story by credit.
Sweet Tooth has certainly fallen into the right hands, as Wan has proven to be able to successfully build a franchise out of a short-film.