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Yup, They’re Making a Sequel to ‘Monsters’
U.K. shingle-distrib Vertigo Films has announced it is making a sequel to last year’s Brit click Monsters, with promo duo Brent Bonacorso and Jesse Atlas set to helm.
Gareth Edwards, who directed the first installment, will serve as exec producer along with “Monsters” actor Scoot McNairy and Vertigo’s Rupert Preston.
The sequel, budgeted under $5 million (the first installment was budgeted under $1 million), will shoot in September in a foreign location, maybe Argentina. Bonacorso, a U.S. docmaker, and Atlas a shorts guru, have been jointly shooting commercials and short films prior to being brought aboard the project.
“We’re going to keep the same quality and intelligence of the first film and make it much more of a straight genre picture,” said Niblo. “ ‘Monsters 2’ will expand the world created in the original movie whilst upping the action ante.” Good.
Niblo describes the tale, set in a walled city, as a “Heart of Darkness” story about two brothers finding each other in a world of monsters. He adds that the variety of aliens will differ in the next installment.
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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