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Cast To Get ‘Stung’ By Giant Wasp Project
Rat Pack Filmproduction and XYZ Films have signed Matt O’Leary (Frailty, Death Sentence), Jessica Cook, Peter Stormare and Lance Henriksen (Aliens) to the horror comedy Stung, reports ScreenDaily.
Adam Aresty wrote the screenplay “About a fancy garden party that goes wrong when a local species of wasp mutates, resulting in an attack by giant insects. It is left to two catering staff to thwart the onslaught and in the process develop a romance.”
XYZ serves as executive producer and handles world sales on the film, set to commence production on Oct 22 in Berlin.
The Los Angeles-based company has licensed UK, Canadian, German, French and Scandinavian rights to eOne.
Benni Diez will direct and Christian Becker and Benjamin Munz of Munich and Berlin-based Rat Pack Filmproduction produce the story of a two catering staff at a fancy garden party who battle a mutated species of wasp.
Munz developed Stung from an idea by Adam Aresty, who won RatPack’s 2012 horror writing contest Write For Your Life.
“Stung, to me, is bringing the creature feature cult film feeling from the 80s into the present and a modern-day fun horror movie,” said Diez.
Diez brings an extensive background in effects and recently served as visual effects supervisor on Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia.
Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is staying busy here in 2024, directing not only the werewolf movie Big Bad but also an upcoming thriller titled Drop.
The project for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes is being described as a “fast-paced thriller,” and Deadline reports today that Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) has joined the cast.
Newcomer Jacob Robinson has also signed on to star in the mysterious thriller. Previously announced, Meghann Fahy (“White Lotus”) will be leading the cast.
Landon recently teased on Twitter, “This is my love letter to DePalma.”
Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach wrote the script.
Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller — “who brought the script in to Platinum Dunes” — are producing the upcoming Drop. Sam Lerner is an executive producer.
THR notes, “The film is a Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse production for Universal.”
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