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Halloween III, Fright Night II Director Accepts You To ‘Helliversity’
One of the most popular “underrated” sequels here on Bloody-Disgusting is HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH, which is so popular that it has it’s own dedicated “appreciation thread”. Fans of the film should get excited as director Tommy Lee Wallace is making his return to horror have six years MIA with Helliversity. You can read all about it beyond the break.
The writer-director behind “Halloween III” and “Fright Night Part 2” is taking horror film fans back to school.
Tommy Lee Wallace will helm “Helliversity,” the first film in FarCor Studios and Indusa Global’s new joint venture to produce low-budget indie features. FarCor co-president Dwayne Corbitt and Indusa president James Ram will lead the endeavor.
In “Helliversity,” a group of American exchange students is terrorized by a vengeful spirit while locked inside a high-security foreign university.
A six-week shoot is set for March in Los Angeles and India. Steve Langford, a longtime writer-producer on ABC’s “Family Matters,” co-scripted with Wallace.
Corbitt and FarCor partner Ralph Farquhar are attached to produce an adaptation of Michael Baisden’s best-seller “The Maintenance Man” for Screen Gems and have backed several series, but this is one of Indusa’s first pacts.
James Kellem of JKA Talent & Literary Agency, which reps Wallace, Langford and both companies, brokered the deals.
It was announced two weeks ago that Paramount is resurrecting the Scary Movie spoof franchise with a brand new reboot movie, which will likely arrive in theaters next year.
The new movie, a joint venture between Paramount and Miramax that will technically be the sixth installment in the franchise, is expected to go into production this coming Fall.
We don’t yet know who will be writing, directing or starring in the Scary Movie reboot, but two actors in particular have already expressed an interest in joining the franchise.
The first is Melissa Barrera, who can currently be seen in theaters in Radio Silence’s bloody horror movie Abigail. Barrera is of course also the star of Scream and Scream VI, which kind of makes her a perfect candidate to lampoon herself in a Scary Movie reboot.
“I always loved those movies,” Melissa Barrera tells the website Inverse. “When I saw it announced, I was like, ‘Oh, that would be fun.’ That would be so fun to do.”
The actress adds, “They have the iconic cast that did it, so we’ll see what goes on with that. I’m just excited to see a new one.”
In a tweet posted last night, Bailee Madison (The Strangers: Prey at Night, the upcoming “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School”) also threw her hat in the running.
Madison tweets, “Random but scary movie 6 hit me up cause I just feel like we’d have fun okay bye.” Your move, Paramount. And make sure you call Anna Faris and Regina Hall too.
Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, the first Scary Movie was released in 2000, just four years after Wes Craven reinvigorated the horror genre with his meta slasher masterpiece, Scream.
The film parodied horror movies of the time including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Blair Witch Project, and the horror-comedy spoof scared up $278 million at the worldwide box office. The success of that first Scary Movie paved the way for an entire franchise of horror spoofs, five of them in total released between 2000 and 2013.
Bailee Madison in “The Strangers: Prey at Night’
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