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Joe Lynch Directing a Remake of 2010 French Action-Thriller ‘Point Blank’ for Netflix
We’re big fans of Joe Lynch here on Bloody Disgusting, who came to our attention with Wrong Turn 2 and has continued to impress us with films like Everly and Mayhem. Up next, Collider reports tonight, Lynch is joining forces with Netflix for Point Blank, a remake of the 2010 French film of the same name.
The site adds that Anthony Mackie (Captain America: Civil War) is nearing a deal to star, alongside Frank Grillo (The Purge: Anarchy).
“Mackie will play a nurse who’s forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade. Grillo will play the wounded man who needs Mackie to keep him alive long enough to make the exchange. As you might imagine, dirty cops factor into the equation.”
Production is expected to begin this Summer.
Lynch is directing from a script penned by Adam G. Simon (Man Down), with Joe Carnahan (The Grey) on board to produce along with Grillo.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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