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Martyrs Director Gets Behind Camera For ‘Details’
It’s nice to see that MARTYRS director Pascal Laugier is taking his talent out of the Weinstein bros. handvs. After watching the INSIDE directors struggle to get a project off the ground, Laugier is putting his trust in Paramount Vantage where he will get behind the camera and direct Details. He is still attached to Dimension’s remake of HELLRIASER, but we expect that project to linger around for quite some time. You can read the details beyond the break.
French helmer Pascal Laugier (“Martyrs”) will direct Paramount Vantage horror thriller “Details” from his own script for Blumhouse Prods.
Jason Blum and Steven Schneider of Blumhouse will produce with Ian Levy.
“Details,” based on a short story by China Mieville, centers on a daughter who disappears after awakening supernatural forces that inhabit the random patterns of everyday objects. Dan Kay wrote the original adaptation.
Laugier is also attached to write and direct a remake of Clive Barker’s “Hellraiser” for Dimension.
Blumhouse is in production on “Tooth Fairy” for Fox and “Paranormal Activity” for DreamWorks. Levy’s producing “The Farm” for Spitfire Pictures.
Par Vantage recently announced a remake of “Lake Mungo” with Vertigo Entertainment, and its upcoming releases include “Revolutionary Road” and “Defiance.”
Expect much more from Vantage in the coming year as we’re told they are focusing on genre pics.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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