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Quick Bites: Ti West, Two Others Go Sci-Fi; Still No ‘Pride & Prejudice & Zombies’ Director
In a hilarious bit of non-news, THR explains that Lionsgate still has no director for their adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Why not report on when they actually have one? The site reports that Lionsgate is considering Craig Gillespie, David Katzenberg, and writer Seth Grahame-Smith to direct the bestselling novel. Grahame-Smith and Katzenberg — who are producing partners — would direct as a team. If they were to sign a deal, it would mark the feature directorial debut for both.
In other brief news, John Moore, who helmed four of 20th Century Fox’s films including Behind Enemy Lines and Max Payne, is attached to direct an untitled sci-fi pitch from Jurassic Park 3 scribe Peter Buchman, reports THR. No details were revealed, so who knows how “dark” it is.
Lastly, hot off the success of the world premiere of The Innkeepers, director Ti West hopes to complete his personal “isolation and paranoia” trilogy (also including The House of the Devil) with The Side Effect, “a science fiction movie [that] has to do with pharmaceutical testing in space and paranoia,” the director told Indiewire. No other details were revealed other than that it will be high concept.
Just added: Paramount Pictures has acquired an untitled science fiction thriller pitch that will be penned by Brian Miller, the writer behind the Timur Bekmambetov produced “found footage” pic Apollo 18 that Dimension Films opens April 22. Reported by Deadline.
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)
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