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Jennifer Lynch Hops Down the Dark Path With Serial Killer Thriller ‘Rabbit’
Bloody Disgusting has learned that Surveillance/Hisss director Jennifer Lynch is back behind the camera shooting an extremely dark thriller about a serial killer entitled Rabbit (also known as Chained).
Anchor Bay is already locked to distro the film that stars Vincent D’Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket) as “Bob,” alongside Julia Ormond, Jake Weber, Eamon Farren, Conor Leslie and Evan Bird.
“Tim (Rabbit) is abducted as a young child by a serial killer. Now a teenager, Tim learns the only way he may be able to survive is if he follows in the killer’s footsteps. He must make his move to escape before he becomes like the monster that now considers himself his father.”
Previously titled “Chained” – the screenplay, written by Damian O’Donnell, is a gripping psychological thriller that highlights the human condition under the best and worst circumstances.
Principal photography began June 27, 2011 in Regina, Canada.
Pictured: Vincent D’Onofrio
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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