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Eli Roth Producing Extreme ‘Haunt’
If there were the perfect recipe for a horror film to grab our attention, it would be Haunt, which is being financed and produced by Sierra/Affinity.
Not only does it take place on Halloween but it takes place in an extreme haunt and is being produced by Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Green Inferno).
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are directing Haunt, Deadline reports, with production slated to begin this fall.
As previously mentioned, Haunt takes place on Halloween when:
“A group of friends encounter an “extreme” haunted house which promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.“
Beck and Woods penned Paramount’s A Quiet Place which stars John Krasinski and Emily Blunt and marks Krasinski’s major studio directorial debut.
Todd Garner is also producing via his Broken Road along with Nickel City’s Mark Fasano, Ankur Rungta and Vishal Rungta. Sierra/Affinity’s Marc Schaberg and Josie Liang, Broken Road’s Jeremy Stein, and Nickel City’s Tobias Weymar are executive producers.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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