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Bloody Alumni Howl For ‘The Wildness’!
We have some awesome news for long-time Bloody Disgusting readers that may have some of you howling in excitement.
Marcel Sarmiento will direct the horror-comedy The Wildness from a script by Evan Dickson (The Bringing).
Dickson was a long-time writer for Bloody before moving onto Hitfix, with Chris Eggertsen, and now becoming a full-time screenwriter. Sarmiento directed the awesome Deadgirl before taking the reigns on the wild and crazy wrap portion of VHS: Viral, the third film in our franchise.
Anyways, TheWrap is reporting that Bron Studios’ genre label The Realm is set to produce The Wildness, described to us in the vein of Lost Boys.
“The story follows a ski bum who’s pushing 40 and still has a penchant for drugs, babes and transcendental meditation. He’s forced to become an unlikely hero in order to save a mountainside community too drunk on wild parties and over-development to notice that their kids are being systematically turned into werewolves.”
Bron’s Matthias Mellinghaus will produce The Wildness with Barbara Crampton (You’re Next, The Beyond, Re-Animator). Crampton also produced Jackson Stewart’s Beyond the Gates, premiering at the LA Film Festival.
Bron’s Aaron L. Gilbert and Garrick Dion will serve as executive producers along with Jason Cloth of Creative Wealth Media Finance.
Production is expected to start in January in Vancouver, and casting is already under way.
Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is staying busy here in 2024, directing not only the werewolf movie Big Bad but also an upcoming thriller titled Drop.
The project for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes is being described as a “fast-paced thriller,” and Deadline reports today that Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) has joined the cast.
Newcomer Jacob Robinson has also signed on to star in the mysterious thriller. Previously announced, Meghann Fahy (“White Lotus”) will be leading the cast.
Landon recently teased on Twitter, “This is my love letter to DePalma.”
Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach wrote the script.
Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller — “who brought the script in to Platinum Dunes” — are producing the upcoming Drop. Sam Lerner is an executive producer.
THR notes, “The film is a Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse production for Universal.”
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