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John Landis Tells B-D He’s Making Another Monster Movie!
Just hopped off the phone with John Landis about his new black comedy film Burke & Hare (coming out September 9th), and near the end of the conversation I asked the “American Werewolf in London” director if he’ll ever return to the horror genre. To my surprise, he said he would, and he even gave me a few details on the new project, a monster movie he’s currently writing with Alexandre Gavras, the son of legendary Greek filmmaker Costa-Govras. Here’s what he had to say:
“You know what? Actually, I’m writing one with Alexandre Gavras and we’re shooting it within the next two years in Paris,” he said. “Yeah, a little monster movie. It has no title [yet]…You’re the first people to know about it.”
Though he couldn’t give me much more information that that, he did mention the film will feature both French and English dialogue, and that his casting will be populated with bilingual thesps as a result. And while he apparently already has actors attached, he unfortunately wouldn’t spill.
“It’s interesting…my cast has to be bilingual because it’s being shot in French and English,” he told me. “We know who’s gonna star in it, but this is all off the radar right now [so I can’t tell you who they are].”
Stay tuned for more updates as news develops on this…
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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