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Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark Remake Scares Up New Casting
After Katie Holmes was cast back in early May for the Del Toro produced remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, all went quiet on the front… until now. Read on beyond the break to see who is in final talks to star and who was just recently cast in the Troy Nixey helmed thriller, which tells the story of a young girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend and discovers that they aren’t alone in the house.
Guy Pearce is in final negotiations and Bailee Madison is set to star with Katie Holmes in “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” Miramax’s supernatural thriller being directed by Guillermo del Toro protege Troy Nixey. Del Toro is producing with Mark Johnson.
“Dark” is based on a 1973 ABC telefilm about a young girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend and discovers they are sharing the house with demonic creatures.
Madison will play the girl, who discovers the creatures and is fascinated by them — until they prove dangerous. Pearce will play the father, an author frustrated by his daughter’s tales of monsters, not believing her even when his girlfriend (Holmes) backs her.
Del Toro and Matthew Robbins wrote the script.
The movie is set to begin production next month in Melbourne, Australia. (Del Toro is in New Zealand working on “The Hobbit.”)
Madison (“Bridge to Terabithia”) is beginning to make waves in the child-acting community. She next appears in Jim Sheridan’s “Brothers” alongside Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman. In the can and due for release next year are “An Invisible Sign of My Own,” with Jessica Alba, and “Betty Anne Waters,” with Hilary Swank. She is repped by Coast to Coast Talent, James/Levy Management and Lev Ginsburg.
Pearce, repped by CAA, Australia’s Shanahan Management and David Weber, has a cameo in Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” and next appears in “The Road,” Dimension’s adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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