It’s not just that it would be a chance to see the pandemic-era time travel comedy on the big screen, Derrickson said (although that doesn’t hurt). “ Palm Springs is the best rom-com of the last decade,

There was a book called Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen that I optioned and am still trying to turn into a TV show. It’s about the process of outing Rockwell International and what they were doing to the community and being indemnified by the government. It was horrible.

Scott Derrickson is known for horror films like Sinister and The Black Phone, but his new film The Gorge finds romance in its scary sci-fi premise.