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Werewolf Colony Discovered in Brazil
Stone Village is quickly coming along as they’ve not only set up their first production with Bo Zenga’s Stan Helsing, but also plan a trip to Brazil where an entire colony of werewolves have taken residence. Inside you can read about Lobo, which was written by Dikran Ornekian and Ryan Colucci.
Scott Steindorff’s Stone Village has acquired “Lobo,” a spec script for an action thriller by Dikran Ornekian and Ryan Colucci about a colony of werewolves in Brazil. Ezna Sands has been set to direct.
The film has been fast-tracked for an Oct. 15 production start and will shoot outside Rio de Janeiro. Pic’s under-$15 million budget will be financed independently.
Essential Entertainment has been retained to sell international territories.
In the film, a man receives a photo and letters from his mother’s will, then heads to an isolated town in the Amazon to discover his roots. There, he discovers a near-extinct species of werewolves and his true identity, and he helps the werewolves wage a battle for survival.
“The stylized nature of the film is what drew me, because it’s far less a monster movie than a Western in the mold of Sergio Leone’s ‘Once Upon a Time in America,’ ” Sands said. “I have the opportunity to bring back to audience the kind of hero they had in the ’70s, someone as dark and conflicted as the new James Bond or the Dark Knight. Our intention is to tell a single story over three films, and this first chapter is a guy who makes a massive revelation.”
Steindorff will produce and Dylan Russell will be executive producer.
The film has begun casting, and IPG is packaging a companion graphic novel that will be written by the scribes.
Sands just completed his feature directing debut, an untitled thriller that mixes elements of fiction and reality.
Stone Village is shooting “Stan Helsing” and recently produced and financed “Love in the Time of Cholera.”
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R-Rated ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe’ Director’s Cut Gets New Title and Streaming Premiere Date
After a slight delay, Disney has finally announced a new streaming date for the R-Rated director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe. According to Gizmodo, it’ll also come with a new title.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn begins streaming on Hulu on August 14.
The new cut was first teased in an interview with director Chris Carter on the Fail Better With David Duchovny podcast from last year, where he teased a much scarier movie he intended.
“Now I have a chance to go back and make the scary movie that I always intended to make,” Carter explained last year. “It’s not just doing a Director’s Cut to do a Director’s Cut. It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.“
The director’s cut of the film was initially set to arrive on Disney+ in June, but quietly disappeared from the schedule without a word. Polygon reported the delay was “due to some last-minute adjustments being made to the film.”
The release’s new “Vrach Frankenshteyn” title certainly suggests those adjustments have been made, likely referring to a Frankensteining of bonus footage.
In the film, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) have been out of the FBI for several years, with Mulder living in isolation and Scully having become a doctor at a Catholic hospital, where she has formed a bond with a critically ill child patient.
When an FBI agent is mysteriously kidnapped, and a former Catholic priest who has been convicted of pedophilia claims to be experiencing psychic visions of the endangered agent, Scully is asked to bring Mulder back to the bureau to consult on the case because of his work with psychics.
The brand new R-rated cut will “faithfully restore the filmmaker’s original vision.”
Look for it on Hulu next month.