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‘Dead Snow’ Director Battles ‘Intruders’ with Blumhouse
Blumhouse is in talks to finance Intruders, a thriller written by Tommy Wirkola, who’ll direct the film with an eye toward a summer production start, says Deadline.
In the pic, a mother escapes her abusive husband and takes her young daughter toward refuge in a secluded home, only to be assailed by intruders hungry for the gold that’s supposedly buried in the house.
It’s unclear if this is the same Blumhouse project in which Intruders in which extraterrestrials invade a home, but with the addition of “gold” to the synopsis, we think it’s possible. That spec, from John Swetnam and Harris Wilkinson, is said to center on “a home invasion set during an alien invasion.”
The Norwegian director, who followed his breakout Dead Snow with the R-rated fractured fairy tale Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, most recently directed What Happened To Monday?. Gary Sanchez is producing.
In the wake of last year’s World Premiere at FrightFest 2023, single take thriller Failure! has been acquired for North American distribution by Red Water Entertainment, Variety reports.
“The film will be released in the first quarter of 2025,” the report notes.
Director Alex Kahuam‘s psychological thriller is presented in three acts…
Shot in one unbroken 87-minute take, Failure! follows James (Raimi – Skinner, The Quarry, Ash vs. Evil Dead, Creepshow) who has a big debt with the bank and is given one hour to choose between financial ruin or murder in order to protect his family. As the hour progresses he finds his home and phone invaded by multiple characters pulling him in different directions, gradually adding to his distress and his unravelling. But who is real and who isn’t?
The film also stars Merrick McCartha (Senior Year), Melissa Diaz (Ruthless), John Paul Medrano (Seven Days) and Daniel Kuhlman (Voodoo MacBeth) and Noel Douglas Orput.
Kahuam and Raimi produced Failure! along with Marco De Molina, Kayli Fortun and Jose D. Rodriguez via Kahuam’s Promotora NAE and De Molina’s Spacebrain Entertainment.
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