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Troma Vet, ‘Deadgirl’ Writer Trent Haaga to Direct ‘Chop’
Trent Haaga, of recent cult film success Deadgirl, announces his directorial debut with the independent thriller Chop! Chop centers on a seemingly innocent young couple, forced by a psychotic stranger to
confront their duplicitous past. It’s a revenge thriller with a comedic edge in the tradition of Fargo and Oldboy. You can get the full skinny beyond the break.
Haaga optioned the script from co-writer Adam Minarovich, and polished it to be his
first directing vehicle after working on 40 independent films as a writer, producer and/or actor.
The CHOP script was a hot property in Hollywood, nabbing its co-writer, Minarovich, a top agent within weeks of making the rounds. Haaga received offers from numerous production companies, but secured independent financing after the 2008 Toronto Film Festival premiere of “Deadgirl,” allowing him to retain creative control of the project.
CHOP is being produced by Chad Ferrin and Jeff Hamilton, and stars powerhouse Indian actress Tanishaa Mukherji and newcomer Billy Bakshi.
Haaga has written award winning films including “Deadgirl,” which had a sold out theatrical run in all major markets, was released on DVD by Dark Sky Films, and was subsequently rated over 42 thousand times on Nextflix in its first month of release. Haaga wrote the much-praised script for “Poor Things,” starring Lindsay Lohan and Shirley MacLaine.
Nuclear Mango is the production consultant. Cameras start rolling on Nov. 11 in Los Angeles.
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Keanu Reeves Describes Untitled Time Loop Thriller from Director Tim Miller as ‘Groundhog Day’ With Sharks
At one point known as Shiver, Tim Miller‘s (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) next movie doesn’t yet have a title, but star Keanu Reeves offers a very intriguing tease this week.
Chatting with Collider, Reeves explains what drew him to the mysterious upcoming project from director Tim Miller. He tells the outlet, “Sharks. Time machine. Groundhog Day.”
That lines up with early plot details that surfaced earlier this year, with the film said to center on a “smuggler in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea.”
That synopsis continued, “Surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries, and bloodthirsty sharks, the man finds himself in a time loop and scrambling to break the cycle.”
Callie Cooke (“The Stranger”), Stefan Kapičić (Deadpool), Steven Waddington (Sleepy Hollow), Nicholas Duvernay (“The White Lotus”), Abraham Popoola (Cruella), Anastasia Safonov, and Bobby Holland Hanton (Thor: Love and Thunder) also star.
Ian Shorr (Splinter, Infinite) penned the screenplay for the sci-fi thriller, which had previously been described as having shades of Edge of Tomorrow and The Shallows.
Stay tuned for more on the untitled Warner Bros. project.
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