“Maggie is a 16-year old girl from a town in middle America who becomes infected by a zombie.” Much the way that Danny Boyle changed the lumbering zombie stereotype by speeding up the undead in 28 Days Later, Maggie changes the lightning quick infection period evident in most zombie films, where victims become zombies in minutes. It will take six months for Maggie to turn, and the film tracks the transformation as she stays with her family.
After playing a vampire and a werewolf, Dark Shadows and Let Me In star Chloe Moretz (pictured) is in negotiations to complete the terrifying trifecta and play a zombie alongside Paddy Considine (The Bourne Ultimatum) in Maggie, which Inferno Entertainment will finance and handle international sales for at Cannes, reports Variey.
Commercial helmer Henry Hobson will make his feature directorial debut working with a Black List script from John Scott 3.
“Set against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse, story concerns a father’s unconditional love for his daughter.” Considine is in talks to play the father, while Moretz would play his titular daughter, Maggie, a 16-year old girl from a town in middle America who becomes infected by a zombie.
As previously reported, Maggie changes the lightning quick infection period evident in most zombie films, where victims become zombies in minutes. It will take six months for Maggie to turn, and the film tracks the transformation as she stays with her family.
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam is producing the $10 million pic, which is scheduled to start production in September.
Moretz is also starring in the title role of MGM’s remake of Carrie.
While my official review doesn’t hit until Friday, it’s safe to say that I pretty much love Sound Of My Voice. It’s a small, but very effective, thriller with some genuinely creepy moments. It also gives you a lot to think about and asks some interesting questions about the nature of belief itself – not necessarily religious belief (though it can be interpreted that way), but the mechanics behind what we accept as fact and reject as fiction.
Last week I sat down with Brit Marling, the film’s star (and co-writer), to talk about the process of bringing this unique vision to the screen as well as the challenges of playing the film’s cult-leader Maggie.
In the R-rated thriller from director Zal Batmanglij, “Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius), a couple and documentary filmmaking team, infiltrate a mysterious group led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie (Brit Marling). Intent on exposing her as a charlatan and freeing the followers from her grip, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective and each other as they unravel the secrets of Maggie’s underworld.”
Sound Of My Voice opens in theaters April 27th, go see it. And head inside for the interview. READ MORE
Just in time for Halloween, Kailey Marsh has released the results of the 2011 Blood List, which features the top 13 most-liked unproduced screenplays in the horror, thriller, sci-fi, fantasy, and dark comedy/drama genres, as voted on by 75 industry insiders who were asked to list their top three choices. To make the list, a script must have received at least three votes and come out within the last calendar year, reports Variety.
This year’s top vote-getter is John Scott III’s slow-burn zombie pic Maggie, which VFX veteran Henry Hobson is attached to direct. The script follows an infected 16-year-old girl during the six week period before she becomes a full-fledged zombie.
See what other horror scripts made the list after the break. READ MORE
It looks like somebody jumped a gun (*ahem*, Deadline) as they’re now reporting that Maggie, the John Scott 3-penned spec script about the six-week metamorphosis of a 16-year-old teenage girl into a zombie, is back on the market.
The spec was close to a deal (although reported as a fact) with Timur Bekmambetov, but they now report that the exclusive negotiation has ended without a deal in place.
Bekmambetov planned to produce a film that comes with vfx wiz Henry Hobson set to direct.
The update is that there are three parties now circling a project, which has a $5 million budget.
As previously reported, “Maggie is a 16-year old girl from a town in middle America who becomes infected by a zombie.” Much the way that Danny Boyle changed the lumbering zombie stereotype by speeding up the undead in 28 Days Later, Maggie changes the lightning quick infection period evident in most zombie films, where victims become zombies in minutes. It will take six months for Maggie to turn, and the film tracks the transformation as she stays with her family.
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Timur Bekmambetov has won a spec auction for Maggie, a script that sparked a spirited auction today, with six bidders. Bekmambetov will produce a film that has a script by John Scott 3, and vfx wiz Henry Hobson set to direct, reports Deadline.
“Maggie is a 16-year old girl from a town in middle America who becomes infected by a zombie.” Much the way that Danny Boyle changed the lumbering zombie stereotype by speeding up the undead in 28 Days Later, Maggie changes the lightning quick infection period evident in most zombie films, where victims become zombies in minutes. It will take six months for Maggie to turn, and the film tracks the transformation as she stays with her family.
While George A. Romero already explored the slow-burn turn, a six month window really adds to the drama and intensity of the horror. What say you?
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