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Malcolm McDowell On Hunting Down An Evil Santa In ‘Silent Night’
Just last week it was announced that Anchor Bay Films would be getting behind Silent Night, a remake of the classic 1984 holiday slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night. Automaton Transfusion and Under the Bed‘s Steven C. Miller will direct the story of a local police department’s search for the killer Santa Claus terrorizing their remote Midwestern town on Christmas Eve. Malcolm McDowell (Halloween, A Clockwork Orange) as Sheriff Cooper – a small town hero ready for some big action.
IFC quickly got in contact with McDowell who explains his role, which takes him from hunting Michael Myers to tracking down a killer Santa Claus.
“I’m the good guy,” McDowell explained. “And I’m chasing the bad Santa.”
Don’t expect McDowell to take any cues from Charles E. Sellier Jr.’s original film, though. He’s never seen them, nor does he want to. “No, I haven’t, he said. “And I’m not going to.”
I know there’s not much to the story, but it’s interesting to see McDowell shift from being typecast as the villain to a franchise’s protagonist.
The new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), the upcoming Weapons is assembling an impressive cast, with Josh Brolin (Dune 2) and Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) recently signing on. Deadline reports today that Alden Ehrenreich (Cocaine Bear) is the latest actor to join the cast of Cregger’s new movie.
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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