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A New ‘Passage’ Opens for Matt Reeves
Jason Keller has been hired to pen the adaptation of Justin Cronin’s epic 2009 novel The Passage for Fox 2000, writes Heat Vision.
Let Me In/Cloverfield director Matt Reeves came on to develop and direct the project in April, and he has settled on Keller as his collaborator.
Keller wrote the screenplay for the Marc Forster-directed Machine Gun Preacher, which Relativity Media just acquired for a fall release, and he co-wrote Relativity’s untitled Snow White project, which just began filming with Julia Roberts starring.
Cronin’s Passage, which is the first of a planned trilogy, “is set a hundred years in the future after a government experiment to lengthen the human life span ends up turning people into vampires.”
Fox 2000 picked up rights to the proposed trilogy of books in 2007. John Logan wrote the original draft of the script when Ridley Scott, who is producing the project, was also considering it as a directing gig.
Sony returns to their own Marvel universe with the upcoming Kraven the Hunter, which has been bumped all over the release schedule. This week, it’s been bumped once more.
There was a time when Sony was going to unleash Kraven in theaters in October 2023, but the film was then bumped to August 2024. It’ll now release on December 13, 2024.
Kraven the Hunter will be the very first Marvel movie from Sony to be released into theaters with an “R” rating, with lots of bloody violence being promised.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the title character, Marvel’s ultimate predator.
“Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”
Ariana DeBose will play Calypso in the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie.
Christopher Abbott (Possessor) is playing The Foreigner, with Levi Miller (Better Watch Out) also on board. Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) will play another villain, but character details are under wraps. Russell Crowe and Fred Hechinger also star.
J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) is directing Kraven the Hunter.
The screenplay was written by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk.
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