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‘Silent Hill’ Director Taking Us ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’
Bliss Media has announced that it will be producing and financing a book-to-film adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic nautical adventure/thriller 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Additionally, Christophe Gan (Silent Hill, Brotherhood of the Wolf) has been locked to direct the feature, which will see pre-production beginning this fall.
The story, “…will move Verne’s narrative to a Chinese setting, and concept art indicated a fin de siècle, East-meets-West visual aesthetic.” Gans was in China during the Shanghai International Film Festival and is apparently searching for two Chinese actors to play the lead roles.
Per the official press release, “Bliss CEO Wei Han will produce alongside Eskwad’s Richard Grandpierre and Frédéric Doniguian, with Wild Bunch, TF1 and Pathé also on board to co-produce and distribute.”
The last time the story hit the silver screen was Richard Fleischer’s 1954 adaptation, which starred Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre.
Gans’ last movie was 2014’s Beauty and the Beast, which starred Vincent Cassel (The Crimson Rivers) and Léa Seydoux (Spectre) in the title roles.
One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.
With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.
Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…
“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”
If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.
Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.
Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”
Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.
Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.
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