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MGM Revs Up Yet Another Writer For ‘RoboCop’
MGM continues to rebuild as they’ve has hired Gran Torino screenwriter Nick Schenk to work on the screenplay for their reboot of RoboCop, writes THR. Jose Padilha is still attached to direct the action sci-fi reboot.
MGM has been developing a new take on the RoboCop franchise, which launched with the 1987 film directed by Paul Verhoeven, for years. The studio is hoping for a summer start, but no one has yet been cast in the title role, although we can confirm that the studio likes Michael Fassbender for the role.
The original was about a cop who was near death and was drafted to become a powerful cyborg cop, until suppressed memories of his past life come back to haunt him. Peter Weller played the character in the original and the 1990 sequel.
The wellness industry gets turned upside down in a blood-soaked cultural reckoning in the teaser for Namaslay.
The genre-bending horror satire that “reclaims the spirit of masala cinema while skewering the commercialization and appropriation of yoga in the West” releases in NYC/LA theaters on August 6 before expanding nationwide on August 13.
In Namaslay, “After arriving in Los Angeles, Gayatri accepts an invitation from her friend Judy to try an upscale yoga studio she’s been dying to attend. When the owner, Reyna, offers Gayatri a chance to join her instructor training program, Gayatri decides to look past the obvious eccentricities and accept the job. As she reconnects with the practice of Yoga she first learned from her grandmother, Gayatri is eventually asked to attend the prestigious instructor’s retreat, where she discovers the ulterior nature of her invitation.”
Starring in the film are Kirunthuja Srikanth-Talim, Angela Sant’Albano, Alicia Mitchell-Mangual, with Usha Krishnan and Christina Moore.
Namaslay is written by Rish and Kanish (Rish Arhant-Sudhir and Kanish Arhant-Sudhir).
The film marks the first feature project from Junghal Studios, an independent production company founded by the directing duo in 2019. With the new label, Rish and Kanish are building a slate of ambitious masala event films inspired by artistic traditions from around the world.
For the uninitiated, Masala films rose to prominence in the ’70s and blend a variety of unlikely genres; they’re also often musicals.
The first chapter in Junghal Studios’ mission, Namaslay, blends horror, satire, and the maximalist energy of masala cinema in its first teaser and poster below.
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