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‘Quasi’ – Broken Lizard Team Making ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ Satire Movie for Hulu
Broken Lizard, the team behind Super Troopers and Club Dread, is back with a brand new project titled Quasi, a spoof of the classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame tale.
Variety reports that the feature film is being made for Searchlight Pictures, and it will exclusively premiere on the Hulu streaming service here in the United States.
Production is already underway. Here’s the synopsis…
“A hapless hunchback yearns for love, but finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the king of France when each orders the hunchback to kill the other.”
Kevin Heffernan is directing the film, as well as starring and producing alongside Steve Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske.
The original tale, written by Victor Hugo in 1831, centers on a deformed bell-ringer named Quasimodo, spawning various adaptations including a Disney animated movie.
Chris Columbus (Gremlins – writer, Home Alone – director) is headed back into the director’s chair for Thursday Murder Club, Amblin’s upcoming feature film adaptation of the same-titled novel written by Richard Osman. Variety first reported the news this morning.
It’s not a horror movie, mind you, but rather a star-studded murder-mystery. Think Rian Johnson’s Knives Out… only this particular murder-mystery is set in a retirement community!
Variety details, “The book, released in 2020, tells the story of four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and solve cold cases for fun. When a shady property developer is found dead, the four find themselves in the middle of their first live crime.”
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley are “being eyed” to lead the cast!
Richard Osman’s 2020 novel was such a hit that it launched a franchise. Follow-up The Man Who Died Twice followed in 2021, with The Bullet That Missed coming along in 2022. And then there was The Last Devil to Die in 2023, with a fifth book in the series expected in 2025.
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