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Looks Like We Won’t See A Low Budget Emmerich Film After All…
Only a week before shooting was about to begin, Roland Emmerich’s 5 million entry into the over-crowded found footage genre, The Zone, has been unceremoniously shut down, with no official reason given. But with the glut of found footage AND alien films (not to mention Area 51 and Apollo 18, which are both), I would guess someone involved realized that the only reason to see a Roland Emmerich movie is to see an entire city or two get destroyed, and you can’t do that with 5 million bucks (unless it’s like, Methuen, Massachusetts. I bet someone could destroy that on-screen for 5 million). So we’ll just have to settle for one of the other 47 found footage movies that are coming, I guess. Fear not, Emmerich fans – his next film, Anonymous, is a dramatic thriller about Shakespeare. Seriously. And that one’s already in post. Thanks to Hollywood Reporter for the heads up.
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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