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‘Phantasm’ Director Don Coscarelli in Pre-Production on Secret Project
We’d like to welcomePhantasm director Don Coscarelli to Twitter where he’s begun teasing his next directing project – his first feature since the well-received Bubba Hop-Tep from 2002. Over the past two days he has posted 3 important pieces of information: “Writing from an undisclosed location,” while also teasing “Pre-production begins.” On what you ask? Well, maybe his last tweet holds the answer. “Most only ride in a hearse once. Some are luckier,” the writer-director states while providing a link to a Phantasm-themed hearse. Could Coscarelli be working on the long gestured Phantasm 5, or has he begun pre-production on Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires, another widely speculated sequel that’s been in development hell for years now? But maybe, just maybe it’s something else? Your guess is as good as mine at this point. We dropped an e-mail into the director and expect a “no comment” in return.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
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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