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.