Movies
Johnny Depp And Edgar Wright’s ‘The Night Stalker’ Has A Writer
Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World) was announced as the director for The Night Stalker a few months back. Disney is eyeing the remake of the ABC telepic and series as a potential star vehicle for Johnny Depp (Dark Shadows, A Nightmare on Elm Street) to play intrepid tabloid reporter Carl Kolchak.
Now comes word that D.V. DeVincentis (High Fidelity, Gross Pointe Blank) will be the screenwriter on the project. Per The Hollywood Reporter “D.V. DeVincentis has been tapped to write Disney’s big-screen adaptation of ‘The Night Stalker’. Stalker is one of the more high-profile projects in the works at the studio because Johnny Depp is attached to star and Edgar Wright is attached to direct.”
I’m guessing that Devincentis will be plowing through his drafts while Wright preps and shoots The World’s End with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. So we’re probably looking at 2013 for World’s End and 2014 for The Night Stalker.
The original ’70s movie and series starred Darren McGavin. He covered crime for a tabloid and his cases always led to supernatural perpetrators that included zombies, vampires, werewolves and aliens. Of course, neither his editor nor anyone else would believe him or allow him to run what seemed like outrageous stories. But Kolchak would put himself in grave danger each episode.
There’s no slowing down Alice Maio Mackay. The filmmaker behind So Vam, Bad Girl Boogey, and this year’s The Serpent’s Skin is already back with sci-fi horror Our Effed Up World.
Starring Annapurna Sriram (Fucktoys), Sara Thompson (“One of Us is Lying”) and Jess McLeod (It’s a Wonderful Knife) and produced by Dark Star Pictures, the film will receive its International Premiere at Fantasia Film Festival on July 18, 2026.
The first teaser has arrived ahead of its fest screening, which sees a group of friends contend with terror from outer space when it crash lands nearby.
The synopsis reads: “Sheri thought her biggest problem in life was dealing with the recent loss of her beloved grandma. But when a mysterious entity crash lands in the woods, only she and her group of shitkicker friends are what stands in the way of an insatiable, intergalactic hunger.”
Scott Major, Brandon Flynn, Jordan Dulieu, JackHaven, Leela Varghese, Tommy Dorfman, and Chris Gun also star.
I Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun produces.
Mackay directs from a script co-written with Ben Pahl Robinson.
Mackay shares of her latest, “Our Effed Up World is my latest no budget queer film. I wanted to delve into a completely new sub-genre—sci-fi. But still through my signature lens and blend of campiness and melodrama. This project allowed me to take a step back from all the horrors that are happening around us and to really reflect on what makes us who we are and what we need to do to hang on to what is important in our lives. Whilst also being a rumination on grief and how we cope with living in an ‘effed” up world.'”
The 30th edition of Fantasia begins today; stay tuned for more from our coverage of the fest.
You must be logged in to post a comment.