‘Morning’ Producer Echobend Pictures Boards Noah Wagner’s ‘Genre-Bending Fever Dream’ ‘The Dirty Oyster’ (Exclusive)

With production company Echobend Pictures on board, “The Dirty Oyster” is now officially open.The Los Angeles-based outfit – also behind upcoming Benedict Cumberbatch starrer “Morning,” “BirdsEye” with “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” breakout Maria Bakalova and “Me, Myself & the Void” – will produce Noah Wagner’s magical realism romance, currently in advanced development.“We believe it falls into the rarest of categories: The triple bullseye.

It hits the heart, the mind and the soul,” said CEO Zubin Anklesaria.

Julia Elaine Mills produces.“The Dirty Oyster” is set to be unveiled at Fantasia Film Festival’s Frontières Forum, which runs July 26-28 in Montreal, parallel to the festival.Written by Michael Koehler, “The Dirty Oyster” will follow a jaded investigative journalist who stumbles across a mysterious wooded restaurant.

Apparently, eating its oyster bisque will reveal one’s true love.“At first glance, it does exude rom-com energy – there is the meet-cute, the serendipity,…

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