Sad news for horror fans that were expecting to die in 7 days. Wait, that’s a bit dark. Let me try that again…
Paramount has announced some upsetting delays to their schedule as they’ve pushed back F. Javier Gutiérre’s Rings from its October 28th release date to February 3rd, 2017. The movie is the third film in the Ring remake franchise, which began in 2002 and was based on Hideo Nakata’s 1998 J-horror classic.
I’m wondering if the box office performance of Blair Witch had anything to do with this movement. Both franchises opened relatively close to each other and both had a sequel come out within a few years. Now the third entries are coming out over a decade since the sequels and I wouldn’t be surprised if Paramount has cold feet due to the similarity of the situation.
At the same time, Paramount has also pushed back its Friday the 13th reboot, which was supposed to come out January 13th, 2017. As we predicted, they’ve moved it to Friday, October 13th, 2017.
The Crazies‘ Breck Eisner is in talks to direct the slasher with Prisoners‘ Aaron Guzikowski writing the script. The film is, according to producer Brad Fuller, “an origin-ish story.”
