As we learned and reported last month, producer Lucas Foster (Ford v Ferrari) and director Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium, Ultraviolet) managed to continue production on a new take on Stephen King’s Children of the Corn over in Australia despite the pandemic shutting down most productions across the world, and Variety reports today that filming has now wrapped.
In an article that digs into precisely how the production managed to safely continue during these unprecedented times, Variety spills the beans on cast and plot details as well.
The new film’s cast includes Elena Kampouris (Before I Fall), Kate Moyer (“When Hope Calls”), Callan Mulvey (Avengers: Endgame) and Bruce Spence (The Road Warrior).
Variety details, “The film describes the events leading up to, and including, the massacre of the adults of a small town in Nebraska by their children, after the adults’ irresponsibility ruins the crop and the children’s future.” The site also notes, using comments from producer Lucas Foster, that the new movie has “almost nothing to do with” the original 1984 classic.
“We went back to the story and free-associated from there,” Foster said.
Be sure to head over to Variety to read the full piece and check out a first-look set photo.
