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Greg McLean Says a Third ‘Wolf Creek’ Will Happen [Exclusive]
Mick Taylor (played by John Jarratt) has become a slasher icon. After being brought to life by Greg McLean in Dimension Films’ Wolf Creek (2005), the Aussie slasher returned in a more fun and energetic sequel in 2013. The reception was so positive that McLean took his character and gifted fans with a short-run “Wolf Creek” television series. With the second season already released in Australia, we checked in with McLean to see if Taylor will ever return to the big screen.
“Wolf Creek 3 will happen, it’s a matter of finding the right time to shoot the movie,” McLean revealed to me.
While a third trip to the Outback is in the cards, right now McLean is focusing on supporting a worldwide release of the “Wolf Creek” series.
“Right now we’re focused on the second epic season of the ‘Wolf Creek’ TV series, which just premiered in the UK and is coming out in the US via the POP network in October this year,” added McLean. “Fans have really embraced the new season and I’m very proud of this new installment. New story— new characters – and Mick is back and badder than ever.”
The new season is described as a six-part, high-end psychological thriller “pitting a diverse cast of characters against an inhospitable, remote landscape, whose lethal dangers are personified by the series’ infamous serial killer.”
In Season 2, “Mick Taylor sees an opportunity of a lifetime after a chance encounter with a coach full of tourists from around the globe. The unwitting travelers begin an outback adventure none of them could have imagined.”
McLean previously told us that Mick will “take his hobby of hunting and killing to shocking and chilling new levels as we delve deeper into his twisted psyche.”
Season 2’s cast also includes Tess Haubrich (Alien: Covenant), Matt Day, Ben Oxenbould, Laura Wheelwright, Stephen Hunter and Chris Haywood.
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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