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‘The Bringing’: Michael Pena Enters the Haunted Cecil Hotel
Michael Pena, pictured (left) in The Vatican Tapes, is set to star in the Sony horror thriller The Bringing.
Jeremy Lovering is on board to direct the film, which is set in the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Plot details are vague, but the hotel has a horrific past. Pena investigates a mysterious death that happened on the grounds.
Brandon and Phillip Murphy wrote the initial script, which landed on the 2014 Black List. Long time Bloody Disgusting family member Evan Dickson also worked on the project with the most recent draft being written by Kevin Kolsch and Denis Widmyer, the duo behind the 2014 horror thriller Starry Eyes. (Variety/THR)
It’s allegedly based on Elisa Lam, who was found dead in the water tanks on the roof of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. That’s the place that killers like Richard Ramirez called home at one time or another, and where suicides have occurred. Footage of Lam’s bizarre, inexplicable behavior in an elevator before her death became a massive Internet sensation, and this has been turned into the story of the man investigating her death, and the nightmare he stumbles into.
Brandon and Phillip Murphy worked on the script, which made the 2014 Blacklist, with the most recent draft written by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer.
Matt Tolmach is producing along with Daniela Cristina Cretu and David Manpearl is also producing. Matt Milam is overseeing for the studio.
Lovering directed the Sundance hit In Fear, an Irish psychological horror film that premiered at Sundance 2013. It stars Iain De Caestecker and Alice Englert as a young couple terrorized by an unknown assailant.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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