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‘I Kill Giants’ Battles Monsters Both Real and Imaginary
The Joe Kelly-written graphic novel I Kill Giants, which was illustrated by J.M. Ken Niimura, is getting ready to kick off production this August. Umedia has just come aboard to finance the picture, according to Deadline. Chris Columbus (The Goonies, Home Alone) will be producing alongside Kim Magnusson and Kyle Franke.
The story follows Barbara, a troubled young girl who insists that giant monsters are coming and that she can help. This leads to her being bullied and outcast and strains the relationships she has already built. Zoe Saldana will be playing Mrs. Mollé, “…the school psychologist who helps Barbara through her struggles and forms a tight bond with her as a result.”
Madison Wolfe, who plays Janet Hodgson in The Conjuring 2, will be playing the role of Barbara.
Jennifer Holland (“Peacemaker”) and Dave Annable (“Lioness”) will lead the cast of upcoming supernatural Civil War thriller Brine, Deadline reports this afternoon.
B.J. Golnick (“Hunting Hitler”) will be directing Brine.
Brine follows a family of Confederate deserters who escape the Union bombardment of Fort Pulaski with a cache of stolen gold and disappear into the Georgia marshlands.
When they take refuge in a remote plantation house, what first appears to be salvation slowly reveals itself as part of something ancient, predatory and impossible to escape.
Jonah Wharton (Lioness), Sissy Sheridan (Chicken Girls), and Grayson Lay (Outer Banks) also star. The screenplay was written by B.J. Golnick and Jeremy Miller.
“Brine is a story about survival, but it is also a story about inheritance…The violence we pass down, the myths we create to justify it, and the cost of trying to break free,” Golnick previews.
“We intend for the film to feel intimate, historically grounded and deeply unnerving, as if the supernatural elements weren’t invented, but unearthed from the marsh itself.”