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Sony Pictures Shows Their Big Balls, Nabs Controversial ‘Detention’!
It’s nice to see a studio take a risk, especially on something that’s so far out there it’s going to be nearly impossible to promote. Sony Pictures Worldwide has picked up worldwide rights to the Joseph Kahn-directed Detention, which is billed as an apocalyptic teen romantic comedy. The film preemed at the SXSW Film Festival where Bloody’s David Harley raved of its lunacy. There is a mass amount of pop culture references, so a release is pretty timely…
The movie, starring Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook and Shanley Caswell and directed by Joseph Kahn, claimed the Youth Jury prize for best FutureWave Feature Film at the just-concluded Seattle International Film Festival. “It concerns a group of students dealing with a slasher killer as they navigate their last year of high school.”
“The pace, energy and awesomeness Kahn has achieved in ‘Detention’ are completely mind-blowing in the best way possible,” said SPWA vp production Scott Shooman, who announced the acquisition along with SPWA senior vp business affairs Michael Helfand and Detention Films’ Abramoff and Weager.
Detention is going to split audiences into a strong love/hate relationship — get ready for controversy and plenty of theater lobby chatter. Uber awesome festival trailer inside.
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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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