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Tony Todd is Going to Direct a Movie, ‘Catalytic’
Horror icon Tony Todd is preparing to step behind the camera for a change, as the Final Destination and Candyman star will write and direct genre pic Catalytic for newly-formed production company Assembly Line (Sushi Girl).
Assembly Line partners Destin Pfaff, Neal Fischer, Kern Saxton and Suren M. Seron will produce the indie film, which “follows a magician as he embarks on a road trip during an impending supernatural apocalypse.”
Catalytic, which is currently casting, will be the first Assembly Line picture to be written by someone outside of its managing members.
Todd, who appeared in Oliver Stone’s Platoon early in his career, has become a genre fan favorite thanks to roles in the Candyman series, The Crow, the Hatchet pics and four of the five films in the “Final Destination” franchise.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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