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Ben Wheatley is Directing ‘The Meg 2’ for Warner Bros!
The director of Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England, High-Rise, and Netflix’s Rebecca, Ben Wheatley has been hired by Warner Bros to direct the shark attack sequel The Meg 2!
Now that’s an (unexpectedly) inspired choice!
The scoop comes courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter tonight, and the site also reports that The Meg star Jason Statham is expected to return and be “creatively involved.”
The script has been written by Dean Georgaris and Jon & Erich Hoeber.
Jon Turteltaub’s The Meg, based on Steve Alten’s Meg novels, was released in theaters back in 2018, devouring over $500 million at the worldwide box office. Jason Statham starred as heroic shark-slayer Jonas Taylor, part of a group of scientists exploring the Mariana Trench who encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed – the Megalodon.
Every film in the Insidious franchise has received a PG-13 rating to date from the Motion Picture Association (MPA). That streak holds strong with Insidious: Out of the Further.
The sixth and newest installment has been rated PG-13 for “strong violent content, bloody images, terror and some strong language.”
Insidious: Out of the Further opens in theaters August 21 via Sony and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster.
As its title implies, the denizens of the Further are spilling out into our world in the new film, and its new MPA rating brings a fresh batch of images.
The film follows Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, who discovers she can travel into The Further, the purgatorial realm of lost souls at the heart of the Insidious universe.
When something evil comes after her, Gemma discovers an ability that changes everything: she doesn’t just enter The Further, she can bring what lives there back to the real world. Once the demons realize her power, our world becomes their playground.
Franchise star Lin Shaye reprises her role as Elise Rainier alongside Amelia Eve (“The Haunting of Bly Manor”) and Brandon Perea (Nope). Island Austin, and Maisie Richardson-Sellers (“Legends of Tomorrow”) star.
Sam Spruell (“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”) plays the malevolent entity known as Cyrus.
“[He] was truly scary,” Shaye previously teased. “When I met him on the street, I had a visceral response, which was crazy. So it’s a whole new catalog of people and even of ideas.” Get a peek at Cyrus below.
Jacob Chase (Come Play) writes and directs, sharing story credit with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (The Conjuring: Last Rites, Orphan). David Garbett (Evil Dead Rise) serves as director of photography.
Jason Blum, Oren Peli, James Wan, and Leigh Whannell produce, with Johnson-McGoldrick, Ryan Turek, Steven Schneider, and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones as executive producers.
Cyrus (Sam Spruell) in Screen Gems’ INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER.
Nick (Brandon Perea) in Screen Gems’ INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER.
The Acolytes in Screen Gems’ INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER.
Clare (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) in Screen Gems’ INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER.
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