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‘Sauna’ Director Teams with ‘Splice’ Writer for ‘Human’ Spin on Werewolf Genre
I’m pretty sure I hate this idea: AJ (Antti-Jussi) Annila and Doug Taylor’s Human offers a twist on the traditional werewolf story, with the main character turning from a wolf into a human. How uneventful. Given the Sundance buzz surrounding Splice‘s finale, a script by Taylor, maybe he’s got some ideas on how to make this just as controversial? Vancouver’s Perfect Circle Productions will serve as co-producers with Blind Spot Pictures. Annila, best known for horror film Sauna (which I absolutely despise), commented: “With Human I expect to do a totally different kind of werewolf film, so don’t expect anything familiar to this sub-genre.” I DARE YOU.
“I’m going in reverseeee.”
Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner will reunite with their Strange Darling filmmaker JT Mollner for Skeletons, an upcoming creature feature that also stars Brie Larson.
Deadline reports this afternoon that John Goodman has now also signed on.
The film’s cast will also include Ione Skye and Daithí Ó Haragáin.
From Sony Pictures, Skeletons is said to be a “modern take on the creature horror film.”
J.J. Abrams is producing. Mollner will direct from a script by Brian Duffield (Love and Monsters, No One Will Save You), based on the short story Fail-Safe by Philip Fracassi.
Skeletons is “told from the perspective of a young boy who slowly begins to discover that his beloved parents are hiding a disturbing secret about his mother’s true nature.”
The film hails from Infrared, Bad Robot Productions, and Assemble Media.