Chicago screenwriter Eric Anderson has earned his fourth consecutive Grey List selection. The Chicago native is the co-founder of Chicago-based Corn Bred Films, and his latest script, Wolves, has been named to the 2026 Grey List.
The recognition marks Anderson’s fourth consecutive year with a project selected for the curated industry list, following Oriole Park, June, The Lot, and now Wolves.
Wolves is a WWII survival-horror thriller set in 1944. The story follows a Nazi death squad investigating a vanished battalion in Germany’s Hürtgen Forest, only to find themselves systematically hunted by Romani shapeshifters. Framed as “Fury meets The Descent,” the script reimagines the werewolf mythos as a karmic reckoning for perpetrators who have already forfeited their humanity.
Meanwhile, Anderson’s resurrection horror June, a Grey List 2024 selection, has moved into active packaging. Director Collin Schiffli (Animals, Die in a Gunfight) is attached to helm, with veteran producer Sonny Mallhi (The Strangers, The Dark and the Wicked) producing.
Under the Corn Bred Films banner, Eric Anderson and his wife and creative partner Amelia Dellos continue to build a slate with consistent industry recognition.
- The Chicago-set drama Oriole Park, written by Anderson and Dellos, follows a young woman coming of age in a neighborhood living in the shadow of a serial killer, as the illusion of safety begins to unravel. The project was named to the 2023 Grey List and won CIFF’s “The Pitch.” Sonny Mallhi is producing, with Jordan Galland (Ava’s Possessions) attached to direct.
- Anderson’s June, selected for the 2024 Grey List and recognized by Emerging Screenwriters the same year, centers on a grieving father who resurrects his daughter through a heretical ritual, only to confront the consequences when she returns as a starving revenant. Mallhi is also producing.
- In 2025, The Lot landed on the Grey List and was recognized by Creative Screenwriting. The screenplay follows a disgraced TV host who returns to his Midwestern hometown seeking redemption, only to find himself at the center of a vampire apocalypse led by the Mayan bat-god Camazotz.
- Now, with Wolves earning a 2026 Grey List selection, Anderson marks four consecutive years with a project honored by the annual industry list.
With four consecutive Grey List selections and multiple projects advancing through development and packaging, Anderson and Corn Bred Films continue to build a steady track record.
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