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A Camping Trip Goes ‘Red’ After Angry Bear Attack
Another Saw director moves on as David Hackl (Saw V) is attached to direct Jack Reher’s spec script The Red Machine, reports TheWrap. The story follows two estranged brothers who go on a camping trip and are continuously attacked by an erratic bear that has lost its fear of humans. Hackl served as the production designer on the second, third and fourth Saw movies. He also worked as the second unit director on Saw III, Saw IV and Repo! The Genetic Opera. Hackl was set to direct the seventh installment in the successful franchise, Saw 3D, but was forced off the project only two weeks before principal photography began by Twisted Pictures at Lionsgate’s request, so that the studio could exercise a second picture option on Saw VI director Kevin Greutert in order to prevent him from directing Paranormal Activity 2, which is a rival horror franchise. Hackl is also attached to direct an adaptation of Vince Churchill’s novel The Butcher Bride, which is currently in development and was also written by Reher.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar Playing the Grim Reaper in Supernatural Romance from Producers Radio Silence
Sarah Michelle Gellar (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come) is the Grim Reaper and Rudy Pankow (“Outer Banks”) is the Devil in supernatural romance Thud, Deadline reports this week.
Mali Elfman (Next Exit) is directing the film, with Radio Silence producing.
Deadline details, “Based on an original screenplay by Noga Pnueli (Meet Cute), Thud watches as the Grim Reaper and the Devil meet cute at a three-day destination wedding, falling in love after colliding at the event, where they’ve each come to sow their own chaos.”
Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin are producing Thud for Radio Silence. The project marks a reunion between the filmmaking team and Sarah Michelle Gellar after Ready or Not 2.
Deadline notes that Thud will shoot in Los Angeles “with a California tax credit.”
Mali Elfman directed the animated short The Scariest Skeleton, and she’s also produced horror films including Queens of the Dead, Haunting of Queen Mary, and Birth/Rebirth.
Mali Elfman is the daughter of legendary composer/musician Danny Elfman.
Rudy Pankow in ‘Outer Banks’ (2020)
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