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Alex Proyas Forgets ‘The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag’ Inspired ‘Dark City,’ Too…
Red Granite Pictures will fully finance and co-produce Alex Proyas’ horrifying sci-fier The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag with Mythology Entertainment, Phoenix Pictures and Mystery Clock Cinema, reports Variety.
“” ‘Hoag’ centers on the title character being struck one evening with the realization that he has no memory of what he does during the day. He contacts a husband and wife detective agency and asks them to surreptitiously follow him — leading to a series of frightening revelations, beginning with a group of shadowy figures who gravely warn of dire consequences unless the pair immediately cease their inquiry.”
Proyas, best known for The Crow, Knowing and I, Robot, adapted the screenplay from a 1942 novella by Robert Heinlein. The original story also served as inspiration for his underrated gem Dark City, which is kind of cool if you ask me…
Producers are planning to start shooting in the fall in Australia where Proyas is a resident and operates his Mystery Clock Cinema banner.
Steve Guttenberg will open up a Dybbuk box in the upcoming movie The Dybbuk, with Beth Grant (No Country For Old Men) and Craig Bierko (Cinderella Man) also starring.
Deadline reports, “The contemporary adaptation of S. Ansky’s play comes from writer-director Lee Amir-Cohen and writer-producer Ashley Bua. Filming has recently wrapped in LA.”
Steven Guttenberg plays Rabbi Azrael in the upcoming Jewish folklore-based horror movie. The character is described as “a spiritual leader and mystic, forced to perform a dangerous exorcism when the spirit of a dead man possesses a young woman in his congregation.”
“Tony-nominee Craig Bierko plays Sender, the young woman’s father, while Beth Grant plays Frayda, her grandmother,” Deadline notes in their exclusive report this morning.
Lee Amir-Cohen makes his feature directorial debut with The Dybbuk.
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