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Dimension Searching For Killers in Web 2.0
It’s cheesy, it’s lame and it won’t ever, ever work. Dimension Films is the latest to try and tackle the integration of web and horror as a new serial killer has found his way onto Web 2.0. Back in 1998 Dee Snider attempted to crossbreed the genre with Strangeland and just last year Twisted Pictures made an attempt with Vlog (and the forthcoming Chain Letter). In between we watched crap like Stay Alive, Cry Wolf, Feardotcom, and even the played-straight Untraceable, which failed miserably. Now Dimension will try their luck — and will soon fail (too).
Trying to break the chain of crappy internet-based horror movies, Dimension Films is getting into the social networking game.
The Weinstein Co.’s genre banner will develop a thriller that involves a teen social networking site as a narrative device. The untitled project is based on an idea by Sara Rue and Robert Green, who will produce. T.S. Faull, who penned the Keri Russell thriller Grimm Love, is writing the script.
The teen thriller is said to resemble Ten Little Indians, as victims are knocked off one by one, only this time with a Web 2.0 twist.
“Online social networking is a widespread phenomenon that interests me greatly,” Bob Weinstein said. “Combining it with a suspense thriller is a new and fresh way to explore this new trend.”
Studios and filmmakers have been seeking ways to explore the popularity of social networking sites in their creative efforts. Last year, Aaron Sorkin signed on with Scott Rudin and Columbia to write a drama about the founding of Facebook.
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If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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