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Friends Turn on Friends in Suspenseful ‘Loft’
Anonymous Content has found the first of several leading ladies for its edgy thriller Loft, as Aussie actress Isabel Lucas (the hottie from , Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) is in negotiations to join the ensemble cast, writes Variety.
Patrick Wilson (Insidious), James Marsden (The Box, Straw Dogs), Wentworth Miller (Resident Evil: Afterlife, Underworld) and “Modern Family’s” Eric Stonestreet are set to star in Erik Van Looy‘s English-language remake of his own 2008 Belgian pic.
In a very Hitchcockian plot, “the pic follows five married friends who share a loft where each of them bring their mistresses. When the body of an unknown woman is found in the loft, they begin to suspect one another of murder.”
Lucas will play “Sarah,” a naive young beauty who unexpectedly comes into the lives of the five friends.
A Nightmare on Elm Street scribe Wesley Strick is adapting Bart De Pauw’s original screenplay. Production is expected to begin later this spring.
Pictured: Isabel Lucas
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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