Exclusives
Additional ‘Friday the 13th’ Update…
So close, yet so far away. Going to scream…
The other day we got pretty excited to learn of progress on the next Friday the 13th, which currently has Prisoners scribe Aaron Guzikowski penning the screenplay.
The implication was that there was momentum on the long-tinkered with project, which will be a period piece of sorts that resurrects the iconic Jason Voorhees.
We went digging for new information to share, and came back with a little.
What we now know is that the script is due next month (April) and that there’s a tentative plan to begin filming at the end of summer.
Nothing is imminent as the screenplay needs to be greenlit and a director still needs to be hired. Talks have not yet begun, we’re told.
With that, it’s time to take the party hats off for a few more weeks until we learn more. But one thing is for certain, Friday the 13th will eventually make it back into theaters, hopefully by Paramount’s January 2017 date.
Waiting patiently…
Exclusives
‘Home Bodies’ Image & Poster Introduce Isolated Twins in Sci-Fi Nightmare [Fantasia 2026]
Sci-fi thriller Home Bodies is set to unsettle audiences at the 30th edition of Fantasia, and our exclusive image introduces a peculiar pair of twins at the center.
Home Bodies makes its World Premiere July 23, at 9:30 PM at Cinéma du Musée in Montreal, with the filmmakers and cast in attendance.
An eerie new poster created by Justin Erickson of Phantom City Creative heralds the film’s premiere.
In the film, “Red and Blue, twins raised in total isolation by an automated house, live according to the rules set by Papa, a disembodied voice behind a locked door who provides food, shelter, entertainment, and order. Their carefully controlled world is disrupted by the arrival of Pal, an enigmatic humanoid stranger whose presence begins to fracture the only life the twins have ever known.”
It’s a premise that calls another Canadian creeper to mind and has us intrigued: Pin.
Emma Ho, Ian Ho, and Ess Hödlmoser star.
Home Bodies is directed and produced by Casey Walker, who returns to Fantasia more than a decade after his horror-comedy A Little Bit Zombie screened at the festival in 2012. He’s since gone on to produce a number of defining Canadian genre films like In a Violent Nature, The Void, and Pyewacket.
“I started my career in Montreal and Fantasia has been part of my life ever since,” said Walker. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to return to where it all started and share Home Bodies on such a special anniversary of the festival.“
Karen Harnisch (Infinity Pool, Sleeping Giant) also produces. Executive producers are Todd Brown (The Raid, Mandy) and Chad Archibald (undertone).
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