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TV: Clive Barker and ‘Saw’ Scribes Team Up for ‘Hotel’
While we always need more horror in cinemas, where it’s really missing is on TV. HBO’s True Blood is helping to fix things as great projects – like The Walking Dead – are being announced. If The Walking Dead news posted yesterday wasn’t kickass enough, Clive Barker is teaming up with Saw IV-VII scribes Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, who just saw the release of their feature film The Collector in theaters last month, for a horror tale taking residence in a “Hotel.” Read on for the skinny!
From the Hollywood Reporter:
““Saw” scribes Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton are taking up residence at “Clive Barker’s Hotel.”
Fresh off Dunstan’s feature directorial debut “The Collector,” the pair have set up the “Hotel” pilot script at Warner Bros. Television, with a number of networks eyeing it as a potential series.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the project is expected to follow a series of ghoulish incidents at a haunted hotel. Barker, the creator of the landmark horror franchise “Hellraiser” and other well-known genre properties, is attached to produce, McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision also in talks to produce. Barker associate Joe Daley will co-produce.
The project marks another collaboration for the duo with the APA- and Evolution-repped Barker. They previously worked on a property from the horror meistro when they did a draft of Dimension’s “Hellraiser” reboot, which is in development.
Dunstan and Melton, repped by APA and Underground Management, catapulted to fame when they won a season of “Project Greenlight” with their horror script “Feast.” That project eventually became a Dimenson movie, and the duo have since gone up to become the writers on Lionsgate’s “Saw” pics.
The pair wrote the previous two movies in the franchise and also penned the screenplay to this fall’s “Saw VI.” They are attached to write as many as two of the movies beyond that.
Dunstan also directed “The Collector” off a script he and Melton wrote. The pic, distributed theatrically through Freestyle, has earned about $7 million this summer in two weeks of release.
Wonderland produced the CW hit “Supernatural,” a genre series on which it also collaborates with WBTV, and is also behind features such as Disney’s reboot of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.“
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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