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Gold Circle Hunts Down a Murderer at Sea
I feel like I’m yelling in space when I talk about the company Gold Circle Films, who announces project after project, only none of them ever seem to see the light of day. The worst part is that most of the projects sounds pretty damn awesome, but I’d bet the pot we see only a small percentage of them. Today another interesting announcement was made, this time about a couple trapped at sea, read on for the skinny.
Pictured: Dead Calm
Gold Circle Films has preemptively booked a ticket for “Inside Passage,” a thriller spec by Jonathan W.C. Mills.
Gold Circle’s Paul Brooks will produce along with Raygun’s Aaron Ryder and Untitled’s Laura Rister.
The story, in the vein of “Dead Calm” and “Breakdown,” centers on a young couple whose honeymoon aboard a luxury yacht is turned upside down when they come across a murder at sea.
Scott Niemeyer and Norm Waitt are exec producing. Raygun’s Carolyn Harris also will have a producing role.
Gold Circle exec Guy Danella, who brought in the material, will oversee.
Mills, repped by Caliber Media, is set to make his feature directing debut with “Brutal” a thriller for Emmett/Furla.
Gold Circle is in post on “The Haunting in Connecticut,” starring Virginia Madsen; “Chilled in Miami,” starring Renee Zellweger; and “The New Daughter,” starring Kevin Costner. The company also is in production on “The 4th Kind” starring Milla Jovovich.
The filmmakers behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey are expanding their public domain horror universe with a handful of upcoming “Poohniverse” movies, including Bambi: The Reckoning, Pinocchio: Unstrung, and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.
Variety has scored the first image from Neverland Nightmare, seen above.
The website details, “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare follows Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from ‘the clutches of the evil Peter Pan.’ Along the way she meets Tinkerbell, who in this twisted version of the story will be seen taking heroine, convinced that it’s pixie dust.”
Scott Jeffrey will direct Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, expected Halloween 2024.
Jeffrey tells us, “I am taking inspiration from French cinema while in prep for this movie. The film will be incredibly tense. I would say it’s a mesh between Switchblade Romance and The Black Phone with our own spin on it. It is a nasty, violent and incredibly dark movie.”
Megan Placito has joined the cast as Wendy Darling, Kit Green is Tinkerbell, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney (The Pope’s Exorcist) is Michael Darling and Charity Kase (RuPaul Drag Race) is James. Martin Portlock will be playing the twisted version of Peter Pan.
Created by J.M. Barrie way back in 1902, the character of Peter Pan – like Winnie the Pooh – is in the public domain, even if the iconic Disney iteration of the character is very much not.
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