New Delhi, July 2 -- In 2018, Trevor Henderson drew a skeletal predator with two sirens fused where a head should be and posted it online, mostly for fun. This week, that drawing beat out Sony, Universal, Paramount and Disney's 20th Century Studios in a bidding war, landing instead at Warner Bros.

the film has to open in theaters. Streaming was explicitly off the table.

Brian Duffield, whose survival film "Whalefall" has been generating industry buzz ahead of its own release, will direct and co-write the script with Zach Cregger, the filmmaker behind this year's "Weapons." Cregger produces alongside Roy Lee and Andrew Childs of Vertigo Entertainment, Scott Glassgold of 12:01 Films, and Duffield through his own Jurassic Party Productions...