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Jason Blum Would Love to Make a ‘Cam’ Sequel
One of the biggest surprises this year was Daniel Goldhaber‘s tech-driven psychological thriller, Cam, which Netflix snuck onto their streaming service last month. Written by Isa Mazzei and set in the world of webcam porn, the “Black Mirror”-esque metaphor for identity theft has gained tremendous support in the horror community, especially by the likes of Stephen King.
While the film doesn’t really call for a sequel, producer Jason Blum is open to exploring another story. When asked about a followup, he exclaimed, “I’d love to make one!”
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If they did, I’d love to see breakout actress Madeline Brewer return, although I’m not sure how you continue her story (we’ll leave that to the writers). In the film, she plays Alice, an ambitious camgirl, who wakes up one day to discover she’s been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself. As this copy begins to push the boundaries of Alice’s internet identity, the control that Alice has over her life, and the men in it, vanishes. While she struggles to regain what she’s lost, she slowly finds herself drawn back to her show and to the mysterious person who has taken her place.
“CAM is the rare film about sex work openly written by a sex worker, and is an authentic, immersive dive into the world of internet performance and webcam pornography,” explained a previous press release. The trailer dives deep into this world while also injecting a Hitchcockian spin right out of “The Twilight Zone”…
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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