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Last House Director Finds ‘Cure’ For Vertigo Entertainment
When this weekend is said and done, most of you will be impressed with Dennis Iliadis’ version of Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left. I am already looking forward to his next project, so it’s pretty exciting to hear he’ll be working with Vertigo Entertainment (The Strangers, The Grudge, The Ring) on a new thriller entitled Cure. Read on for the story.
“The Last House on the Left” helmer Dennis Iliadis has signed on to direct the thriller “Cure” for Michael London’s Groundswell Prods.
The story centers on a young man who sends his wife for an experimental treatment to save her from a terminal illness. Although she returns completely cured, she is suddenly infected with something more terrifying.
“Max Payne” scribe Beau Michael Thorne wrote the screenplay.
Lensing is skedded to begin in the summer.
Vertigo Entertainment’s Doug Davison and Roy Lee (“The Strangers”) are producing alongside Brian Witten and Michael Connolly.
Connolly manages both Iliadis and Thorne and will produce via his Mad Hatter Entertainment banner. Witten most recently exec produced the remake of “Friday the 13th” for New Line/Paramount and will produce “Cure” via his Witten Pictures banner.
In addition to “Last House on the Left,” Iliadis wrote, directed and produced the indie “Hardcore.”
The official Resident Evil trailer has arrived this morning, bringing a closer look at the nonstop survival horror ride filled with references to Capcom’s classic game series and T-virus gore.
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony.
The trailer below introduces Austin Abrams (Weapons) as Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in a non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Cregger directs from a script he co-wrote with Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapters 3 & 4).
The trailer keeps its focus on the central human character arriving amidst an outbreak, revealing very little in the way of its mutated threats. The film’s director previously teased not to expect a zombie-heavy film.
Cregger explains, “This movie doesn’t utilize zombies that much. It’s much more focused on the weird creature stuff than the zombies. There’s really only two scenes, maybe three, where there’s proper zombie stuff going on. And two of those three are in the trailer.”
“But other than that… I wouldn’t call this like a zombie movie,” Cregger previews. “I just feel like, you have this opportunity for the T-Virus to do all these really fascinating things to the human body, and to the world around you, and so to just limit it to zombies feels like a squandered opportunity. So I tried to really vary it up.”
According to the film’s listing on the AMC Theatres website, the runtime for Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil is 1 hour, 35 minutes, making it one of the franchise’s shortest movies.
And we are expecting a very intense, fast-paced 95 minutes from the film.
Watch the new trailer below, spot the signature Resident Evil shotgun shells and more.