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Nightmares Creep Into First Shot from ‘Martyrs Lane’ [Cannes]
Hailing out of the UK, Bloody Disgusting scored the first image from Martyrs Lane, a brand new ghost story from Ruth Platt.
In the film, “Leah (Kiera Thompson) lives in a large vicarage, full of lost souls and the needy, with her parents, busy with their ministry and her older sister.
“In the day, the house is bustling with people; at night it is dark and empty, a space for Leah’s nightmares to creep into.
“Leah can’t quite work out why something feels missing in her relationship with her mother, however hard she tries. When a small, nightly visitor appears, Leah feels duty-bound to receive them with kindness – and a little game between them begins in which Leah is set a nightly task. With each task, Leah’s knowledge grows – knowledge that unpicks at the broken relationship she has with her mother, and threatens to destabilize the world as she knows it.”
From Ipso Facto Productions, the film also stars Denise Gough, Sienna Sayer, Steven Cree, Hannah Rae, and Anastasia Hille.
Producers are Christine Alderson and Katie Hodgkin, with Lizzie Francke, Norman Merry, Peter Hampton, Ian Sharp, Rebecca Joerin-Sharp, and Emma Dutton executive producing.
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Amblin Movie ‘Thursday Murder Club’ Sounds Like ‘Knives Out’ Meets ‘Cocoon’
Chris Columbus (Gremlins – writer, Home Alone – director) is headed back into the director’s chair for Thursday Murder Club, Amblin’s upcoming feature film adaptation of the same-titled novel written by Richard Osman. Variety first reported the news this morning.
It’s not a horror movie, mind you, but rather a star-studded murder-mystery. Think Rian Johnson’s Knives Out… only this particular murder-mystery is set in a retirement community!
Variety details, “The book, released in 2020, tells the story of four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and solve cold cases for fun. When a shady property developer is found dead, the four find themselves in the middle of their first live crime.”
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley are “being eyed” to lead the cast!
Richard Osman’s 2020 novel was such a hit that it launched a franchise. Follow-up The Man Who Died Twice followed in 2021, with The Bullet That Missed coming along in 2022. And then there was The Last Devil to Die in 2023, with a fifth book in the series expected in 2025.
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