Ellis amassed more than 1M Twitter followers as the story grew between Aug. Ellis' ghost story first appeared in August 2017 as a series of social media posts which he then re-wrote as an ongoing BuzzFeed post, “Dear David,” which went viral. 7 and Dec. 12, 2017.
The feature film is described as being a high concept horror-thriller, with all other details under wraps. Mike Van Waes is attached as the writer, based on a story by Van Waes and Evan Turner.
BuzzFeed Studios’ Lauren Dolgen and Hieu Ho will produce along with Rideback‘s Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich. Turner will serve as EP.” />
New Line Cinema has snapped up the rights to Dear David, the first urban legend ghost story that unfolded on social media from BuzzFeed contributor Adam Ellis.