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More ‘Little Murder’ Casting, ‘Dream House’ Shoots in January
Bokeem Woodbine, Peter Jason, Noah Bean and Deborah Ann Woll (the sexy star of “True Blood” and the forthcoming Mother’s Day remake) have joined the cast of the supernatural thriller Little Murder from Mind in Motion Entertainment. Josh Lucas, Terrence Howard and Lake Bell are already filming the post-Hurricane Katrina mystery written by Gerald Di Pego (The Forgotten) and Justin Di Pego and directed by Peter Antonijevic. Murder centers on a disgraced New Orleans police detective trying to find the killer of a beautiful cellist — with the girl’s ghost assisting. In other quick news, a new Variety article has announced a January 25 shoot date for Jim Sheridan’s psychological thriller Dream House, which will star the new James Bond Daniel Craig as a New York publishing exec who relocates his family to a small New England town, only to learn that their new home was the scene of a vicious murder.
Pictured: Deborah Ann Woll
Netflix is reuniting with Emilia Perez director Jacques Audiard on an adaptation of French horror novel La Nuit ravagée, Variety reports today.
The project is described as an elevated horror film based on the critically acclaimed horror novel by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo.
It’s set in “Saint-Auch, a fictional suburb on the outskirts of Toulouse in Southern France, in the early 1990s. It follows a group of teenagers drawn to an abandoned house that exerts a strange power on them. After one of their friends dies under disturbing circumstances, they decide to enter the house, not suspecting it’s alive with something supernatural. Once they enter it, it begins to feed on their private fears, desires, and traumas, turning their psychological vulnerabilities into something monstrous and inescapable.“
The French-language Netflix original marks Audiard’s first foray into horror.
The divisive Emilia Perez, Audiard’s Spanish-language musical crime drama, amassed 13 nominations at the 97th Academy Awards but also met with controversy when offensive tweets by star Karla Sofía Gascón during the film’s award campaign.
Del Amo’s source novel was published last year and has been described as an homage to ’80s and ’90s horror in the vein of Stephen King, though its social realism is what lends itself to the elevated horror concept and Audiard’s attachment to the project.
Stay tuned for more as it arrives.
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