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Alex Aja Describes His Netflix Thriller ‘Oxygen’ as ‘Buried’ With a ’28 Days Later’ Twist [Images]
Netflix is waking up in a cryogenic pod, offering up the first stills from French filmmaker Alexandre Aja‘s (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D, Crawl) thriller Oxygen (formerly O2) to Collider.
In the film, “A young woman wakes up in a medical cryo unit. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she ended up sequestered in a box no larger than a coffin. As she’s running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare.”
Below are some fresh images of Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds), who stars alongside Mathieu Amalric and Malik Zidi.
Aja recalls reading Christie LeBlanc’s Black List script “and feeling like it captured such an intense experience of survival so well.
“It got me thinking of the best of Buried, but with a 28 Days Later twist,” Aja tells Collider.
“I was in it all the way, I pictured myself waking up locked in this cryo unit, trying to figure out who put me there and why; I felt her desperation.”
He adds: “The story is a mystery box built like a labyrinth from which you have to escape.”
Interestingly, the film was shot in French, but will be available in 35 languages on Netflix once released. Watch for a release date when it’s announced.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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