Mastering Your Past From Director Of Sundance Darling Sweetheart Lands At Legendary

‘Mastering Your Past,’ From Director Of Sundance Darling ‘Sweetheart,’ Lands At Legendary

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 13, 2019 4:30 pm EST

Legendary beat out other competitors for the rights to Mastering Your Past, a thriller that landed Dillard a seven-figure deal to co-write the script with Matt Owens (Luke Cage, The Defenders) and another seven figures to direct. This right off the heels of the rave reviews for his latest Sundance darling, Sweetheart.

Details are pretty slim for Mastering Your Past, but the thriller reportedly centers on a black woman who enters a relationship with a white man, only to find out that he’s not what he appears. THR reports that the story “contains the twists that Dillard has become known for.”

Mastering Your Past will be Dillard’s first project away from Blumhouse, which picked up Sleight after it enchanted audiences at the 2016 Sundance and backed Dillard’s sophomore effort, Sweetheart. The Kiersey Clemons-starring survival horror was a midnight screening at this year’s Park City festival and was one of our most anticipated movies of Sundance.