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News Bites: ‘Dexter’ Gets Animated, ‘True Blood’ Interview, ‘Red State’ Movement, ‘Devil’ Clip!
We’ve got a really strong edition of Bloody Disgusting News Bites as beyond the break you’ll find a load of small news stories including details on Showtime’s animated “Dexter” series, “Early Cuts”, along with a new interview with “True Blood” vamp Stephen Moyer, a behind-the-scenes look at The House of the Devil, Kevin Smith chats Red State getting financed, and a new poster for Peter Jackson’s Lovely Bones arrives. Check it all of the goodness below!
KEVIN SMITH’S RED STATE
After the Weinstein brothers passed on Kevin Smith’s horror screenplay Red State, it looked as if the project would go from “on hold” to “never gonna happen.” News comes in via Den of Geek who chatted with the cult director and got some fresh, invigorating news.
“I got a call at 2am last night. I think we’ve got the money for RED STATE,” hes tells the site, with a full interview forthcoming.
They also write, “We double checked that with him directly to make sure that’s what the man said. And he did. Whether it’s his next project or not is unclear (but unlikely, we’d wager). But RED STATE might, at last, actually be happening.”
RED STATE is a horror film in which a group of misfits encounter fundamentalism gone to the extreme in Middle America.
TRIANGLE GAME/QUAD
Christopher Smith’s Triangle arrives in UK cinemas on October 16. Below you’ll find the new UK quad, while a new interactive game has just been released.
“It’s an interactive game where you can choose your own path, sort of like a Choose Your Own Adventure type thing. It’s an annotated YouTube video so at the end of each clip, you have two choices to make.” Click here to take a look.
When Jess hits a seagull on a drive to the local harbour, little does she know that it is a harrowing omen of things to come. She sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends and already things are not as they seem – she just cant put her finger on why. Her suspicions are heightened when the yacht hits a storm and the group is forced to board a passing ocean liner to get to safety – a ship Jess is convinced shes been on before. The ship appears deserted, the clock on board has stopped, but they are not alone Someone is intent on hunting them down, one by one. And Jess unknowingly holds the key to end the terror.
STEPHEN MOYER ON TRUE BLOOD
Click here to watch the interview
I know a lot of you are “True Blood” fanatics (as am I), so below you’ll find a brand new interview with leading vamp Stephen Moyer, who plays Bill Compton on HBO’s show. The second season just ended here in the States and the first is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. Check it out.
First season synopsis: “The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people’s minds, and how her life is turned upside down when the Vampire Bill, walks into her place of employment two years after vampires ‘came out of the coffin’ on national television.”
BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF HOUSE OF THE DEVIL
Below you’ll find a new behind-the-scenes video for Magnet Releasing’s The House of the Devil (review), Ti West’s latest horror project, which stars Greta Gerwig, Jocelin Donahue, AJ Bowen, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Dee Wallace, Mary B. McCann, Brenda Cooney, John Speredakos and Heather Robb in an 80’s homage based on true events. The flick is now available on VOD, Amazon and XBOX, and will be arriving in limited theaters come October 30 (this is a pretty good movie to see Halloween weekend). Ti West’s Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever will be hitting DVD in February, while you can also check out his other indie films, Trigger Man and the critically acclaimed The Roost, on DVD now.
“Set in the 1980s and based on true, unexplained events, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL stars the sexy Jocelin Donahue as cash-strapped college student Samantha Hughes, who takes a babysitting job in a remote mansion with her good friend Megan (Greta Gerwig, BAGHEAD). She’s desperate for money and the pay is good, but something feels wrong, and Samantha quickly realizes that the girls are trapped. As a lunar eclipse darkens the night sky, Samantha finds that her employers–cult favorites Tom Noonan (MANHUNTER) and Mary Woronov (ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL)–don’t have a baby at all, and have something truly terrifying in store for them.”
WHITAKER TALKS JEKYLL
In an interview with MTV, Forest Whitaker talks about his forthcoming role in Jekyll and Hyde, the adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic 1886 novella “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” that will also star 50 Cent.
“It’s a father-son kind of relationship,” he tells the site adding that he’ll play Jekyll and 50 would play Hyde. “It’s also [an interesting script] because we are dealing with similar things. You know, this Jekyll has a lot of issues and problems personally, himself. Hidden passions, hidden perversions — and it’s acted out by 50.”
Abel Ferrara will be directing.
LOVELY BONES INTERNATIONAL POSTER
From Yahoo! comes a new poster for DreamWorks’ The Lovely Bones, which arrives in theaters January 15.
Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, and directed by Oscar winner Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Jackson & Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens, “The Lovely Bones” centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
DEXTER GETS ANIMATED
Showtime has launched a special DEXTER websites entitled “Early Cuts”. Premiering on Sunday, October 25th, you can check out 12 one-to-two minute animated shorts.
“On the heels of the record-breaking premiere of the 4th season of SHOWTIME’s Emmy
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‘Werewolf By Night 2’? Michael Giacchino Says It’s Being Talked About But “Everything Takes Forever”
It was Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino who sat in the director’s chair for Marvel’s Disney+ Halloween special Werewolf by Night back in 2022, which was released in both throwback black & white as well as full color. But are we ever getting a sequel?
Giacchino tells Screen Rant in a new chat this week that he remains hopeful.
“We’re talking about it,” Giacchino explains. “Everything takes forever to do. There’s a lot of planning that has to happen. Everything has to fit in a particular place at a particular time.”
He adds, “So, nothing moves as fast as we’d like it to. But I hope one day that you will be sitting there watching another Werewolf by Night. That’s my hope.”
Inspired by horror films of the ’30s and ’40s, Marvel Studios’ Werewolf by Night takes place on a dark and somber night as a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader.
In a strange memorial to the leader’s life, the attendees are thrust into a mysterious and deadly competition for a powerful relic—a hunt that will ultimately bring them face to face with a dangerous monster.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for BD, “The MCU kicked the horror into overdrive with Werewolf by Night. The nearly hour-long feature presents as a classic horror movie, dropping viewers into the middle of a secret world of monster hunters. Film composer Michael Giacchino directs the special, penned by Heather Quinn and Peter Cameron. Giacchino focuses on evoking the classic horror vibe to assist in the initial worldbuilding. The events play out in monochrome, save for the vibrant red glow of the Bloodstone. Cigarette burns and film grain get added for that retro look. The rules of the hunt get relayed to the cutthroat candidates by way of reanimated dead, albeit in a much campier and family-friendly way via animatronics.”
“Aside from the aesthetics, Werewolf leans heavily into the mysterious,” Meagan continued. “The black and white cinematography more than sets the retro vibe; it allows the feature to remain accessible to a wider audience even as it lets its monsters and monster hunters spill plenty of blood. Toss in a Jack Pierce-inspired beast with practical application, and you’ve got a modern superhero story with a classic Universal Monsters makeover.”