New social media horror movie <em>XOXO</em> will be directed by George Nolfi

Every once in a while, a new project comes along that makes you go “Hmmmmmm.” Like a horror movie in which the method of terror is social media. Good news! Such a movie is now in the works! George Nolfi, who wrote and directed The Adjustment Bureau, is on board to direct XOXO, and he’ll be supervising the screenplay by Mark Heyman, who co-wrote Black Swan.

Billed as “Fatal Attraction for the digital age,” XOXO will follow “an engaged executive who begins a virtual relationship with a mysterious woman on Facebook,” whose interactions in real life turn deadly. It obviously won’t be the first movie to turn social media into a monster (see: Catfish and Hard Candy), but when you think about how effectively Scream made us jump every time the phone rang late at night, I feel like we’re ready for a straight-up horror movie that will elicit the same reactions when we get a Facebook notification. (Maybe we’ll spend that much less time on Facebook when we could be doing something productive.)

I think on some level, we all think social media is a little scary. Suddenly, we live in a time when people, strangers, can see and read nearly everything we’re doing, because we’re (oddly) trusting enough to put it all out there voluntarily. And sometimes, horrible things happen as a result of being a little too trusting. To say nothing of the paranoia, mind games, and mixed messages involved with such a passive-agressive and often anonymous form of communication. So actually, social media is a perfect part of current pop culture to turn into a psychological thriller! And that’s what XOXO is going to be.

‘Adjustment Bureau’ director George Nolfi takes social media thriller ‘XOXO’ [Screen Rant]

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