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[Video Interview] Gore Verbinski and Dane DeHaan Talk ‘A Cure For Wellness’
Getting studio support for an R-rated horror film can be a difficult task, especially when said horror film is a 146 minute-long homage to the slow burn horror films of the late 1960s and early 1970s. While many of those films (Rosemary’s Baby, Don’t Look Now) are classics, they’re not exactly big moneymakers when it comes to modern audiences. Director Gore Verbinski (The Ring, the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films) likes a challenge, and sought out to make that very film. That film is called A Cure for Wellness and will be released in theaters nationwide this weekend.
I managed to snag an interview with Verbinski and the film’s lead actor Dane DeHaan (Chronicle, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) during their brief press tour in Austin, Texas. In a surprising move, 20th Century Fox taped the interview and let me keep the footage. This isn’t something I am used to, so if I sound nervous it’s only because it’s not something I’m used to. I may also sound nervous because the first thing I said to DeHaan before the interview started was “you look tired” (What? He was yawning as I walked up to shake his hand!). It wasn’t the best first impression. I suppose I could have asked him if he was tired, as opposed to telling him that he looked tired, but I digress.
In the 10-minute interview, which you can watch below, we discuss the film’s runtime (which is something our own Benedict Seal has already written about), getting a film like A Cure for Wellness off the ground, CGI vs. practical effects, eels, the most difficult scenes to shoot and much more. Also, feel free to enjoy the particularly crass moment towards the end where I bring up the hilariously awful deer scene in Hideo Nakata’s The Ring Two. Verbinski wasn’t really having it. So that’s two bad first impressions! Ah well, c’est la vie.
A Cure for Wellness opens in theaters nationwide on February 17, 2017.
Daniel Roebuck has been cast as Santa Claus in Terrifier 3, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively report.
Writer-director Damien Leone is currently wrapping production on the highly-anticipated sequel, in which Art the Clown unleashes chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.
“I’ve been holding this secret for a long time!” Roebuck tells Bloody Disgusting. “I’ve been really excited about it. I’m actually entering into the movies that I watch. It’s extraordinary. This is Terrifier bigger, badder, best.”
Roebuck appears in Terrifier 3 alongside returning cast members David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Elliot Fullam, and AEW superstar Chris Jericho.
No stranger to iconic horror properties, Roebuck has squared off against Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, played The Count in Zombie’s The Munsters, succumbed to The Tall Man’s sphere in Phantasm: Ravager, and investigated death in Final Destination.
A distinguished character actor with over 250 credits, Roebuck has also appeared in The Devil’s Rejects, 3 from Hell, Bubba Ho-Tep, John Dies at the End, The Fugitive, Lost, Agent Cody Banks, and The Man in the High Castle. Incidentally, he’s also playing Santa in the family drama Saint Nick of Bethlehem, due out later this year.
Terrifier 3 will be released in theaters nationwide later this year via Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting in conjunction with our partner on Terrifier 2, Iconic Events Releasing.
Terrifier 3 comes courtesy of Dark Age Cinema Productions. Phil Falcone Produces with Lisa Falcone acting as Executive Producer. Co-producers include Mike Leavy, Jason Leavy, George Steuber, and Steve Della Salla. Brad Miska, Brandon Hill, and Erick Opeka Executive Produce for Cineverse. Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor also Executive Produce.
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