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Lionsgate Remaking ‘Cube’ With the ‘Prometheus’ Writer!
Before Lionsgate was the Big Bad Wolf who owned Summit Entertainment, they were a little mini-major that could, and released all sorts of phenomenal direct-to-DVD titles that blessed me with a wide variety of genre films for my weekend release.
One of the best discoveries was the 1997 Cube, Vincenzo Natali’s film festival hit that spawned two sequels (Cube: Hypercube and Cube Zero).
Now, nearly 20 years later (where the hell has the time gone?!), Lionsgate will remake the sci-fi horror film that begins when 7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics awaken in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.
Saman Kesh, the up-and-coming director who caught the town’s attention with his short “Controller,” is attached to direct Cubed, a re-imagining of the movie, says THR.
Roy Lee is producing along with Jon Spaihts, best known as the co-writer of Prometheus and the in development Chris Pratt-Jennifer Lawrence sci-fi drama Passengers.
Using the original setup of seven strangers trapped in a giant cube-like structure, Cubed is described as a sci-fi survival thriller about artificial intelligence, humanity and the birth of a new “digital” race.
Phil Gawthorne is writing the script based off of Kesh’s original take.
One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.
With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.
Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…
“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”
If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.
Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.
Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”
Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.
Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.
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