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‘Paranormal Activity’ Director Takes Ghost Town Detour
Glen Basner’s FilmNation is to fully finance its first film, a prestige genre title that Paranormal Activity creator Oren Peli is set to direct this summer, writes Screen Daily.
Basner and his team will commence international pre-sales here on the untitled story, which Peli, riding high after producing the North American hit Insidious, will direct from his own screenplay and is producing with Brian Witten.
The horror film will tell the “tale of friends who discover they are not alone after they become stranded in a ghost town overrun by nature.”
Nature gone wrong is NOT an easy subgenre to pull off, which is why it mostly comes off in the vein of Piranha, Killer Bees or might I add M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening (yikes). Hopefully Peli can defy the odds!
Peli directed and produced Paranormal Activity and produced the sequel. He also directed and wrote the upcoming Paramount acquisition Area 51 and produced Barry Levinson’s eco-horror The Bay, which Lionsgate will release in the US.
Former Paramount evp Witten is partners with Richard Saperstein at The Genre Company and is producing a remake of 1958 sci-fi The Blob and Stephen King adaptation Cell.
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‘The Whisper Man’ Official Poster – Netflix Serial Killer Thriller Stars Robert De Niro & Adam Scott
If you leave a door half open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken. That’s the official tagline for The Whisper Man, a new serial killer thriller coming to Netflix next month.
Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, and Robert De Niro star in The Whisper Man. Based on Alex North‘s 2019 novel of the same name, the film will stream on August 28.
Check out the official poster below and expect the trailer soon.
In the film, “When his eight-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as The Whisper Man.”
The stacked cast also includes Michael Keaton, John Carroll Lynch, Hamish Linklater, Owen Teague, Will Brill, and Acston Luca Porto.
James Ashcroft (The Rule of Jenny Pen) directs Netflix’s upcoming movie The Whisper Man from a script by Ben Jacoby (The First Omen) and Chase Palmer (IT).
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot, Michael Disco, and Kassee Whiting produce the thriller for AGBO (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Extraction).
The Whisper Man is Rated R for “some bloody violence, disturbing images, suicide, language, and brief sexual references.”
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