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Alex Aja Finds Male Lead For ‘Piranha 3D’
The jokes over as Adam Scott is taking a break from comedy and moving over to horror. The star of Step Brothers and Knocked Up is going to have to watch his step when he toplines Alex Aja’s Piranha 3D, the remake of Joe Dante’s classic film from 1978, reports Moviehole.net. The film, starring Elisabeth Shue, is set in Lake Havasu, Arizona, where a tremor causes the lake’s floor to open, setting free scores of prehistoric piranhas. It’s up to Shue’s character, the local Sheriff, and her teenage son, to essentially save the day. Scott will play Novak, a diver for the US Geological Service who helps discover the piranha outbreak. The remake hits theaters May 19, 2010.
Chris Columbus (Gremlins – writer, Home Alone – director) is headed back into the director’s chair for Thursday Murder Club, Amblin’s upcoming feature film adaptation of the same-titled novel written by Richard Osman. Variety first reported the news this morning.
It’s not a horror movie, mind you, but rather a star-studded murder-mystery. Think Rian Johnson’s Knives Out… only this particular murder-mystery is set in a retirement community!
Variety details, “The book, released in 2020, tells the story of four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and solve cold cases for fun. When a shady property developer is found dead, the four find themselves in the middle of their first live crime.”
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley are “being eyed” to lead the cast!
Richard Osman’s 2020 novel was such a hit that it launched a franchise. Follow-up The Man Who Died Twice followed in 2021, with The Bullet That Missed coming along in 2022. And then there was The Last Devil to Die in 2023, with a fifth book in the series expected in 2025.
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