Pegg, Dante, Team For "Casting the Runes"

Simon Pegg ("Star Trek," "Hot Fuzz") will star in an adaptation of author M. R. James' ghost story "Casting the Runes" says Bleeding Cool.

David Tully wrote the adapted script from which Joe Dante ("Gremlins," "Small Soldiers") will direct.

The project has "modernized" the story that has previously been adapted for television, radio, and on film in 1957's "Night Of The Demon."

In this version, a rising young actor inexplicably hurls himself in front of an oncoming subway train.
A celebrity gossip blogger Mark Dunning smells a story in the actor's connection to self-help guru Simon Karswell. He soon discovers the gury is in command of dark occult forces.