Nowadays, film scripts can be based on almost anything, and the film Dear David draws inspiration from a Twitter thread initiated by BuzzFeed illustrator Adam Ellis.
In the Twitter thread, which lasted for several months, Ellis becomes convinced that a little ghost child is haunting him at night, a concept that has been taken to its extreme in the movie adaptation.
BuzzFeed writes about the film, made in collaboration with Lionsgate:
Shortly after comic artist Adam (Augustus Prew) responds to Internet trolls, he begins experiencing sleep paralysis — while an empty rocking chair moves in the corner of his apartment. As he chronicles increasingly malevolent occurrences in a series of tweets, Adam begins to believe he is being haunted by the ghost of a dead child named David. Encouraged by his boss to continue the “Dear David” thread, Adam starts to lose his grip on what is online…and what is real.
Dear David is set to premiere in the USA on October 13th.
