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Munroe on ‘Dead of Night’ Trilogy and Monsters!
This week is all Kevin Munroe as the director revealed to Bloody-Disgusting that he’s not only prepping Dead of Night, the feature film adaptation to Dylan Dog, but he’ll also be directing WAR MONKEYS and EL ZOMBO. We caught up with the director who talked quite a bit about all three projects. Beyond the break you can read what he has to say about the DEAD OF NIGHT trilogy!
With Brandon Routh attached to star, Munroe says he hopes to begin pre-production as early as next month.
“With DEAD OF NIGHT… if all goes well we’re gonna be closing financing very soon and we’re gonna start prep December January, we’ll be in New Orleans. And then filming late January, February.”
In the adaptation, Dylan Dog is forced back into his nightmare investigations after he is approached by a woman who claims to have seen her father brutally murdered by a mysterious creature. With his street smart, his gun and a set of paranormal weapons, Dylan attempts to restore order both above and below ground.
Originally the plan was to move the film from London to New York, now they’ll be heading to Louisiana.
“The original script was set in New York, and eventually the location changed, someone drew Louisiana on the desk. And looking at New Orleans, we’re like “Holy crap that will be a lot of fun”. The original source material was London, with a lot of moors and fog… and New Orleans is perfect for that! You can’t sell that in New York, but you can in New Orleans. So in a strange way it’s actually being more true to the source material.”
Munroe reveals to B-D what type of monsters he’ll be going up against.
“Right now he’s got vampires, and a couple different instances of zombies,” Munroe reveals to Bloody-Disgusting. “There are werewolf families in there as well. Plus other stuff that is hinted at. He goes up against everything; there’s ghosts, and aliens, and curses, and banshees and everything… So right now we’re just trying to do sort of the first chapter, and then sequels we’ll get to see a bit more.”
Sequels? Sounds like DEAD OF NIGHT will becoming a potential franchise…
“I would love to [make a trilogy]. Right now they are just treating it as one film at a time. And I’m happy to, because at the end of the day this movie stands alone. But I can’t see why, if this film is successful, why there can’t be more. The comic is so deep and there are so many different stories to tell. And the character is so great; it’s not like he’s just some ass-kicker who shows up and that’s the level of his characterization. He’s more than just an angry investigator; there are a lot of layers to him.”
Although it’s too soon to talk about it, Munroe teases what type of main villain Dylan will be going up against.
“Basically he goes up against… sort of bad guys that come in all forms. Every family has their good and bad members.” He continues, “There are bad zombies, bad vampires, bad werewolves. The movie is all about seeing who the bad guys from the warriors. There’s a storyline where Dylan has to go investigate, and he doesn’t know who to trust, who is after him. Everybody’s sort of a suspect.”
The most exciting news is that there will be a mix of puppets, CG and other variations to bring the monsters the life.
“DEAD OF NIGHT is] entirely prosthetic, the biggest CGI thing we have is probably going to be wire removal. And the monsters will be very specific, the vampires will move entirely different than the werewolves. Everything has a really cool feel to it.”
Director Sébastien Vaniček has been set to helm the next Evil Dead movie, but up first from the filmmaker is the creepy crawly spider horror movie Infested. An exclusive new clip gives a discomfiting closer look at the spider terror, and it’ll make you intensely afraid of all bathroom drains and fixtures.
Infested will induce a new wave of arachnophobia this week; the spider horror film arrives on Shudder on April 26, 2024.
If you’re brave enough to face your fears, watch the new clip below to get a feel for the unrelenting wave of spiders that the characters (and the audience) will face in the film.
In the film, “An underprivileged suburb has been thrown into chaos following an invasion of venomous spiders. Ordered to be placed in quarantine, the project sees inhabitants living on lockdown alongside terrifying spiders that are becoming bigger and bigger.
“The story revolves around Kaleb, who’s about to turn 30 and has never been lonelier. He’s fighting with his sister over a matter of inheritance and has cut ties with his best friend.
“Passionate about exotic animals, he comes home one day with a venomous spider and accidentally lets it slip away.”
Théo Christine (“Suprêmes”), Finnegan Oldfield (“Final Cut”), Jérôme Niel (“Smoking Causes Coughing”), Sofia Lesaffre (“Les Misérables”) and Lisa Nyarko star.
Florent Bernard co-wrote the script.
In his review out of Fantastic Fest last year, Bloody Disgusting’s Trace Thurman raved that Infested (aka Vermines) is “one of the best spider attack movies in years,” noting in his 4-star review that the creature feature uses practical spiders – REAL SPIDERS – as much as possible. Thurman also wrote that the spider horror movie is “full of moments that will get under your skin (I kicked my legs up more than a few times in my screening).”
The spiders will be everywhere in Infested, are you ready?
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