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‘Children of the Corn’: Press Release Confirms ‘Runaway’!
After breaking the news of a secret Children of the Corn sequel going into production, we also were able to find out all sorts of story details that link it to the 2009 remake of the same name.
This morning I received an official press release that confirms everything except its connection to Stephen King’s Children of the Corn, although it references Judgment without any mention of Hellraiser, too.
The Oklahoma Film + Music Office (OF+MO), with producer Mike Leahy of Strike Accord and in association with Gatlin Returns, Inc., announced today the beginning of principal photography on Runaway, Bloody Disgusting is told.
As we teased yesterday, Runaway tells the story of a young woman named Ruth, who finds herself pregnant after escaping a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. Ruth struggles to spare her son the horrors of her childhood while trying to outrun her past.
And confirming what we were hearing, the film is being directed by John Gulager, who is known for the Feast trilogy, Piranha 3DD, and Zombie Night.
Runaway, which will utilize the Oklahoma Film Enhancement Rebate administered by OF+MO, will be shooting in Oklahoma City and the surrounding area including Luther and Coyle.
This will be Leahy’s third time filming in Oklahoma; he previously produced Great Plains in the fall of 2015, and Judgment in February 2016, both of which utilized the Oklahoma Film Enhancement Rebate Program.
“Given the opportunity to make two back to back horror films, I chose Oklahoma because of the amazing talent and support I found on my first film here, Great Plains. Working with the same group of people three times in a row is unique in today’s economy, but Oklahoma has proven to be one of the first places I consider when budgeting a film,” said Leahy.
“We are thrilled to work with Strike Accord again,” said OF+MO Director Tava Maloy Sofsky. “To have a producer bring three films to Oklahoma in less than a year is a testament to the effectiveness of our state’s incentive program and speaks volumes about the talent and production value our local cast and crew members bring to film productions working in Oklahoma.”
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‘Desperation’ – Sam Raimi and ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Directors Teaming for Stephen King Movie
Stephen King’s 1996 novel Desperation is headed back to the screen, with Jeff Sneider breaking the news on The InSneider that Sam Raimi, Stephen King, and Final Destination Bloodlines directors Adam B. Stein and Zach Lipovsky are coming together for the film.
Sam Raimi will produce the upcoming Desperation movie, while Stein and Lipovsky are on board to direct. Searchlight Pictures is the studio attached to the feature film project.
Published in 1996, Stephen King’s novel Desperation was previously turned into a made-for-TV movie starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt and Steven Weber back in 2006.
Wikipedia reminds, “Desperation is a story about several people who, while traveling along the desolated Highway 50 in Nevada, get abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the fictional mining town of Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to ‘rescuing’ a family from a nonexistent gunman. It becomes clear to the captives that Entragian has been possessed by an evil being named Tak, who has control over the surrounding desert wildlife and must change hosts to keep itself alive.
“They begin to fight for their freedom, sanity and lives before realizing that if they are ever to escape Desperation, they must trap Tak in the place from which he came.”
Desperation was published at the same time as Stephen King’s own “mirror novel” titled The Regulators, which shares characters but takes place in an alternate universe.
The union of Sam Raimi and Stephen King is an exciting one for fans of both Raimi and King, and there’s a nice bit of full circle history there too. As you may recall, it was Stephen King’s review of The Evil Dead that Raimi credits for saving and legitimizing his indie debut feature.
And the rest is history! Stay tuned for more on this developing story.
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