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[Exclusive] ‘Saw’ And ‘Insidious’ Writer Leigh Whannell’s Sci-Fi Movie Gets A Title And Directors!!
Drew Turney writes in:
While he was promoting the eagerly anticipated Insidious: Chapter 2 (releasing September 13), writer/co-star Leigh Whannell spilt some details on his upcoming sci-fi film.
Back when the first Insidious was released in 2010, Whannell and director James Wan talked about an unnamed sci-fi project, but it’s easy to forget that at the time, things weren’t going exactly swimmingly for the filmmakers. After the phenomenon that became the Saw franchise, their next few efforts (Dead Silence, Death Sentence) spluttered.
But with Insidious returning $50m from a $1.5m budget and Wan’s The Conjuring having raced past many a $200-million blockbuster at the box office (not to mention taking the reigns of the mega-budgeted Fast and the Furious franchise), the creative duo are in a very different place.
Now, Whannell reveals that his sci-fi project is gathering steam. It’s been written, has directors attached and he hopes to get it made in 2014. It’s called Stem and the Spierig Brothers [the twin brother team behind 2004’s Undead and 2009’s Daybreakers] are attached to direct. This is how Whannell describes the story, while cautiously reminding us that it’s ‘early days’. “It’s a sci-fi film in the vein of the Terminator, set in the near future. At the moment it’s got the Spierig brothers attached to direct, so we might shoot it in Australia and make it kind of an Aussie genre dream team.“
Daniel Roebuck has been cast as Santa Claus in Terrifier 3, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively report.
Writer-director Damien Leone is currently wrapping production on the highly-anticipated sequel, in which Art the Clown unleashes chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.
“I’ve been holding this secret for a long time!” Roebuck tells Bloody Disgusting. “I’ve been really excited about it. I’m actually entering into the movies that I watch. It’s extraordinary. This is Terrifier bigger, badder, best.”
Roebuck appears in Terrifier 3 alongside returning cast members David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Elliot Fullam, and AEW superstar Chris Jericho.
No stranger to iconic horror properties, Roebuck has squared off against Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, played The Count in Zombie’s The Munsters, succumbed to The Tall Man’s sphere in Phantasm: Ravager, and investigated death in Final Destination.
A distinguished character actor with over 250 credits, Roebuck has also appeared in The Devil’s Rejects, 3 from Hell, Bubba Ho-Tep, John Dies at the End, The Fugitive, Lost, Agent Cody Banks, and The Man in the High Castle. Incidentally, he’s also playing Santa in the family drama Saint Nick of Bethlehem, due out later this year.
Terrifier 3 will be released in theaters nationwide later this year via Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting in conjunction with our partner on Terrifier 2, Iconic Events Releasing.
Terrifier 3 comes courtesy of Dark Age Cinema Productions. Phil Falcone Produces with Lisa Falcone acting as Executive Producer. Co-producers include Mike Leavy, Jason Leavy, George Steuber, and Steve Della Salla. Brad Miska, Brandon Hill, and Erick Opeka Executive Produce for Cineverse. Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor also Executive Produce.
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