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TV: AMC To Tell ’99 Stories’
AMC has agreed to develop sci-fi horror series “99 Stories,” says THR.
Feature writer David Seltzer developed and will write the series with James Middleton (“The Sarah Connor Chronicles”) and Steven Banks (“Women in Law”) executive producing.
The show features a pretty cool premise as it is “set in a new 99-story high-rise building in which a group of strangers gets trapped.”
AMC vice president of original series Christina Wayne said: “We want to do original programming that is cinematic and flows seemingly into the films. This seemed like the perfect fit.”
“99 Stories” will be part of AMC’s Monsterfest season, featuring 240 hours of non-stop horror films as well as online video.
Seltzer said of his series: “Each story presents a different kind of challenge for the group. The elevators are in control of destiny, whittling them out by deciding who they deem deserve to go up.”
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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