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Calvin Reeder’s ‘The Rambler’ Becoming a Feature!

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During our recent interview with director Calvin Reeder to discuss his latest film The Oregonian (premiering at Sundance this week), the filmmaker spilled a few general details about his hoped-for next project, a feature version of his earlier short film The Rambler. Reeder hopes to gain some momentum following Sundance in order to raise needed funding for the movie, which concerns a young drifter who goes on a bizarre odyssey through the Pacific Northwest. The short was chilling and fantastic, so here’s hoping he acquires the resources he needs to expand it to feature-length. So far he already has buy-in from distributor Anchor Bay, but needs further capital to make the project a reality.They want to come in and help,” said Reeder of Anchor Bay’s involvement. “They’ve only been able to provide some of the funding or whatever, but we can’t seem to find the rest of it just yet…it’s not really an expanding of the short, but a lot of those parts are in it. It just kind of starts with The Rambler getting out of jail, and he kind of follows this somewhat episodic and sometimes very psychedelic journey. [Laughs] It’s hard to explain, just like everything else [of mine] I guess.

Reeder has actually been attempting to get the project off the ground for the last two years, but decided to shoot The Oregonian – a cheaper, less time-intensive project – instead when the money didn’t come through.

It just was going really bad. So I just changed gears and involved some of the people that I wanted to make ‘The Rambler’ with for something that would be less money, and we could do in less days,” he told me. “[‘The Rambler’ is] kind of elaborate and would have been expensive and would have taken a lot of people’s time.

We’ll keep you posted if and when the project finally starts coming together.

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Chucky Actor Teo Briones
Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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