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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.”
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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