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Fox Announces Untitled Vampire Spoof Film for This Summer
Vampires are all the craze these days — too bad it’s mostly with the tweenie Twilight fans. Beyond Twilight we’ve seen Liongsate’s Daybreakers, HBO’s “True Blood” drama, WB’s “The Vampire Diaries”, and the forthcoming ABC series “The Gates”. There are multiple films in production ranging from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter to The Last Voyage of the Demeter. The possibilities are endless, which is why 20th Century Fox is prepping to release yet another vomit-inducing spoof movie based around the vampire craze. The shocker? It’s coming out on August 18 of this summer. The pic is from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the craptacular duo behind Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, Date Movie, and Meet the Spartans. A guaranteed “suck”-fest? Yes. It has already been rated PG-13. Earlier this month it was announced that Fully Mooned, a Twilight spoof had entered pre-production. Maybe this is the film? More soon, I’m sure.
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‘Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare’ – First Image from ‘Poohniverse’ Horror Movie
The filmmakers behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey are expanding their public domain horror universe with a handful of upcoming “Poohniverse” movies, including Bambi: The Reckoning, Pinocchio: Unstrung, and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.
Variety has scored the first image from Neverland Nightmare, seen above.
The website details, “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare follows Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from ‘the clutches of the evil Peter Pan.’ Along the way she meets Tinkerbell, who in this twisted version of the story will be seen taking heroine, convinced that it’s pixie dust.”
Scott Jeffrey will direct Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, expected Halloween 2024.
Jeffrey tells us, “I am taking inspiration from French cinema while in prep for this movie. The film will be incredibly tense. I would say it’s a mesh between Switchblade Romance and The Black Phone with our own spin on it. It is a nasty, violent and incredibly dark movie.”
Megan Placito has joined the cast as Wendy Darling, Kit Green is Tinkerbell, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney (The Pope’s Exorcist) is Michael Darling and Charity Kase (RuPaul Drag Race) is James. Martin Portlock will be playing the twisted version of Peter Pan.
Created by J.M. Barrie way back in 1902, the character of Peter Pan – like Winnie the Pooh – is in the public domain, even if the iconic Disney iteration of the character is very much not.