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Early Script Released for Unmade, John Carpenter-Inspired Spinoff ‘X-Men: Fear the Beast’
Sometimes to stop a monster, you have to become one.
Actor Nicholas Hoult has played X-Men character Hank McCoy a.k.a. Beast across several films now, including First Class, Days of Future Past, Apocalypse and this year’s Dark Phoenix, and at one point the idea of giving him his own spinoff movie was toyed with. In fact, a script was written for a film titled X-Men: Fear the Beast, but alas, it didn’t get very far.
In a chat with THR, longtime X-Men editor and composer John Ottman has just shared details about the unmade project, which was penned by his assistant Byron Burton. Long story short, Burton pitched Ottman on the Beast spinoff film, and Ottman was so impressed with the script he wrote soon thereafter that he actually tried to get it made over at Fox.
Universe architect Simon Kinberg, however, declined to read it.
THR details the surprising opening sequence of the story, “The late ’80s-set script begins in a snow-covered Inuit village that’s being stalked by a mysterious creature.”
Ottman explained to the site, “We wanted to have the tenor of John Carpenter’s The Thing where you are in this inhospitable environment.”
X-Men: Fear the Beast also included Wolverine, and ended with the reveal of Mr. Sinister. You can actually read the entire script right here, along with THR’s recap right here.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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