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SDCC ’08: Quarantine Brothers Head to ‘The Coup’
This morning at the San Diego Comic Con Bloody-Disgusting was invited to a special breakfast with brothers John and Drew Dowdle to chat about their forthcoming feature film, Sony Screen Gems’ Quarantine, the remake of the Spanish horror film [REC]. While talking about their voyeur film, they revealed to Bloody-Disgusting that they’re about to prep their next feature, which you can read about inside.
This morning at a breakfast for Sony Screen Gems’ QUARANTINE, we caught up with the writing-directing duo behind the film, the Dowdle brothers, who revealed their next project will be a new indie film entitled THE COUP.
“It’s an action-horror film called THE COUP and it’s a husband, wife and two little girls (ages 5 and 7) who go to Cambodia,” John tells Bloody-Disgusting. “A coup overthrows the government and starts executing all of the foreigners
The brothers are going to head off next week to take the same trip our family will enjoy in Thailand.
“Were actually going to take the same trip the family takes in Cambodia, and then were going to Thailand to see how to copy exactly that.”
What exactly is the film about? It’s an action-thriller with zombie elements.
“It’s about what these parents will do to save their kids, and it has some very horror film elements about it,” Drew explains. John continues, “It’s very realistic, like a real world zombie movie. Anybody who sees [the family]… they’re dead. It’s not a zombie movie, but it has that vibe. They have to hide in crowds, get out. It’s pretty horrific.”
THE COUP will be independently financed, like THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES, which is still looking for a release date from MGM.
Sony Screen Gems has slated their first studio film, QUARANTINE, for release on October 10th.
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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