Horizon Motion Pictures has signed a deal to represent four projects from Irreverent Media Ltd (IML) in Cannes as executive producer and co-producer seeking sales, distribution and co-production partners.

The quartet is headed by The Light-House, a story starring Kevin Zegers and William Hurt that is said to be inspired by the dying words of the celebrated horror writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Zegers will play a misunderstood man who flees his tortured past and becomes the keeper of a lighthouse, where he must finally face his demons. Fredrik Thorsen wrote the screenplay.

Filming is scheduled to begin later this year in British Columbia and Horizon's Rob Straight and Caroline Stern will produce alongside Tom O'Brien and Echo Lake Productions' Doug Mankoff. CAA's Rick Hess will oversee for the agency.