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‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ to Be Performed “Live” and Then Edited Into a Feature Film
Here’s a truly unique experiment in filmmaking that is changing the entire experience. Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) is directing a hybrid adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which will be performed live and then streamed to selected Scottish cinemas before being edited together into a feature film.
“The adaptation will kick off as a theatrical live experience, where audiences will enter a live film set built within the atmospheric setting of Edinburgh’s historic Leith Theatre, over Feb. 25, 26 and 27, 2022,” Deadline explains. “Following the final performance on Feb. 27, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde will be live-streamed to selected Scottish cinemas.”
Furthermore, the footage captured during the performances will subsequently be edited into a full feature film, which will be broadcast on Sky Arts in the fall of 2023, adds the site.
“Leach and co-writer Vlad Butucea have transposed the story from London to Victorian Edinburgh. The story follows Gabriel Utterson as he enters a world of dark duplicity to uncover the identity of the mysterious Mr. Hyde and the hold he has over Utterson’s old friend Dr Jekyll.”
The film will be shot in black and white by David Liddell and both the film and live event will feature new electronic music by DJ and music producer Hudson Mohawke. Casting to be announced soon.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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