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UPDATE: The Butcher Bros. Become ‘The Violent Kind’
Updated with first ever casting news! Some major news hit the trades tonight as it was revealed that the producers of both the Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboots will be bringing the Butcher Bros. back into the world of horror with The Violent Kind. The Butcher Bros, also known as Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores, broke onto the scene with their low-budget indie vampire film The Hamiltons. Read on for more details on The Violent Kind and watch for some casting news as it comes in.
Award-winning filmmakers The Butcher Brothers (Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores; THE HAMILTONS) have begun production on THE VIOLENT KIND. The dramatic feature horror film will be produced by Jeffrey Allard (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) and Michael Ferris Gibson, along with producers Andy Gould (HALLOWEEN), Malek Akkad (HALLOWEEN), Jeremy Platt, and executive producer K’Dee Miller. Film began lensing in Petaluma, CA and Cotati, CA on July 13th.
One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the woods, a small group of hardened young biker hoodlums and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the women becomes demonically possessed. A few miles from them, “Missing Persons” signs displaying the faces of individuals not seen since the 1950s are spewed across a wall. The connection is met through a night of sex, booze, and inhuman personas.
Cody (Cory Knauf from The Hamiltons) and Q (Bret Roberts of S. Darko and May) are two young men caught in a legacy of crime and violence. Both born into a tough Northern California biker gang simply called “The Crew”, their lives have been a constant mix of admiration, hatred, love and fear of the criminal culture they’ve grown up in. When Cody’s mother has her 50th birthday at an old secluded farmhouse in the woods – a hangout for The Crew for decades – the evening unites Cody with his cousin and Q’s girlfriend, Shade (Taylor Cole of Surrogates), Cody’s ex-girlfriend Michelle (played by genre fav Tiffany Shepis who will be seen in Night of the Demons this October), and Megan (Christina Prousalis), the younger sister of Michelle who left the gang years ago to lead a cleaner life.
The party quickly turns wild with a typical biker mix of booze, drugs, and strippers, but shifts into something the likes of nothing they have ever known. As mysterious figures are glimpsed amongst the woods, ominous sounds heard, and friends found injured, an evening that begins with The Crew recanting the past quickly finds a bigger question looming: Who has joined them for this evening?
The machinations of THE VIOLENT KIND delve into an exploration of how the past, the present, and the future will impact the lives of several 20somethings, each on their own path, but controlled by a history unbeknownst to them.
The Butcher Brothers direct the project penned from their own script. They have assembled a team of industry notables, including IFC Independent Spirit Award nominated James Laxton (MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY) as its cinematographer, and producers from the horror genre’s most recognized films (THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, HALLOWEEN, and HALLOWEEN II.)
THE VIOLENT KIND stars Cory Knauf (THE HAMILTONS, GODSPEED), Taylor Cole (“Heroes,” “Summerland”), Bret Roberts, Christina Prousalis, noted “princess of scream” Tiffany Shepis , Joseph McKelheer (THE HAMILTONS, GODSPEED), Samuel Child (THE HAMILTONS), and Joe Egender (THE HAMILTONS, Backstage West Garland Award winning Best Actor for “He Asked For It”.)
The Butcher Brothers are represented by Jeremy Platt at Spectacle Entertainment, and Greg Pedicin at Gersh.
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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