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‘Castle Freak’ Remake Currently Being Written; Barbara Crampton Teases the Approach
We learned back in April that Cinestate, the company behind the resurgence of Fangoria as well as the upcoming Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, is developing a remake of Full Moon’s Stuart Gordon-directed Castle Freak; in the ’95 film, a man struggles to save his family from the strange and deadly occurrences in the castle they’ve inherited.
Castle Freak will be directed by SFX guru Tate Steinsiek with original star Barbara Crampton producing alongside Dallas Sonnier, Amanda Presmyk, and Charles Band.
Over on Twitter last night, Crampton teased that the Castle Freak script is currently being written, noting that it will feature “an expanded Lovecraft universe“…
And have you heard we are reimagining it in a new film? The story will have elements of the first but with many new characters and an expanded Lovecraft universe. https://t.co/LJcbj7wEWW
— Barbara Crampton (@barbaracrampton) May 31, 2018
CASTLE FREAK reimagining is BEING WRITTEN as we tweet… https://t.co/eyEvIfl57i
— Barbara Crampton (@barbaracrampton) May 31, 2018
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Julia Garner Joins Horror Movie ‘Weapons’ from the Director of ‘Barbarian’
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.