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‘Friday the 13th’ Sequel Finally Getting Chilly, Cooler Kills!
After the success of New Line Cinema’s Friday the 13th reboot, which grossed over 65m here in the States, it was quickly announced that Platinum Dunes was returning to produce a sequel to the film that would also reunite writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. After the first round of visits to the set of A Nightmare on Elm Street, reporters returned with first word on the sequel – it will be quite a white time of year. Read on for the skinny.
My personal problem with the first FRIDAY was the lack of interesting or jump-out-of-your-seat kills, Producer Brad Fullers Acknowledges the first film’s flaws.
“If we’re vulnerable on [the first film], it’s that people thought our kills weren’t clever enough, so whatever we need to do to make those kills seem clever in the second film is what we’re going to do,” Fuller told Hitflix on set in Chicago.
But something that horror fans have been dreaming about since the possibilities of a Freddy vs Jason 2 was the idea of takings viewers to Camp Crystal Lake in the winter. While the site nails home that nothing is set in stone, Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller does tell them that it’s an idea they’re open to.
The best news is that we might be seeing this in theaters as early as next summer!
“‘Friday the 13th Part 2,’ we don’t have a script, it’s not green-lit, and we have no idea what’s going to happen,” Fuller told the site. “If it gets green-lit and we’re able to mount it in a reasonable amount of time, we would hope the movie would open on August 13, 2010.”
Read the entire article over at Hitflix.
Netflix is reuniting with Emilia Perez director Jacques Audiard on an adaptation of French horror novel La Nuit ravagée, Variety reports today.
The project is described as an elevated horror film based on the critically acclaimed horror novel by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo.
It’s set in “Saint-Auch, a fictional suburb on the outskirts of Toulouse in Southern France, in the early 1990s. It follows a group of teenagers drawn to an abandoned house that exerts a strange power on them. After one of their friends dies under disturbing circumstances, they decide to enter the house, not suspecting it’s alive with something supernatural. Once they enter it, it begins to feed on their private fears, desires, and traumas, turning their psychological vulnerabilities into something monstrous and inescapable.“
The French-language Netflix original marks Audiard’s first foray into horror.
The divisive Emilia Perez, Audiard’s Spanish-language musical crime drama, amassed 13 nominations at the 97th Academy Awards but also met with controversy when offensive tweets by star Karla Sofía Gascón during the film’s award campaign.
Del Amo’s source novel was published last year and has been described as an homage to ’80s and ’90s horror in the vein of Stephen King, though its social realism is what lends itself to the elevated horror concept and Audiard’s attachment to the project.
Stay tuned for more as it arrives.
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