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Darren Lynn Bousman Sells Untitled Conspiracy Pitch
After getting behind the camera for Saw II-IV, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Mother’s Day and 11-11-11, director Darren Lynn Bousman is taking his talents into the “thriller” genre selling an untitled pitch for a cerebral thriller to Andrew Adamson and Aron Warner’s Strange Weather Films shingle that is said to be “quite violent.”
Bousman also plans to produce and direct the project, a thriller in the vein of The Parallax View and The Firm involving flash mobs.
“It’s exciting getting more back into creating my own material,” Bousman told BD. “This year I sold a monster script I wrote, ’11-11-11,’ and now this new project. I can’t say a lot about it – it’s not ‘horror’ per se – but more of a dark thriller.”
He continues comparing it to classic conspiracy thrillers: “I love movies like ‘The Game, ‘ ‘The Firm,’ ‘The Star Chamber’, etc – films that live in paranoia and conspiracy. I have always been fascinated in what ‘evil’ people and corporations are capable of…” Juicy!
Bousman’s Mother’s Day is awaiting release. He currently is in post on 11-11-11, a religious horror that will take on the idea of 11 gates of Heaven and how on 11:11 on the 11th day of the 11th month, the 11th gate will open up and something from another world will enter the earthly realm for 49 minutes.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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