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[Box Office] ‘Terminator’ Gets A Title, ‘Beware the Night’ Renamed…
This Saturday just got interesting as we have news on two different genre titles starting with the newest Terminator flick.
According to Production Weekly, Paramount has set on Terminator: Genesis as the title. A few days back in was reported by Deadline that the studio and director Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) are looking closely at Emilia Clarke (“Game Of Thrones”) and Brie Larson to play the role of Sarah Connor in the Terminator reboot that is being assembled for a July 1, 2015 release. They also say that Kyle Reese, played by Michael Biehn in the original film, will be a character in this version, as will John Connor, so it seems like a jump into the future might be part of the plot line.
In other news, The Last Exorcism and Sinister‘s Scott Derrickson’s Beware the Night has been retitled to Deliver Us From Evil. In theaters July 2, 2014, Joel McHale, Sean Harris, Edgar Ramirez, Olivia Munn, and Eric Bana star.
“In the flick Bana plays an Irish Catholic cop working a case when he meets a renegade priest (Ramirez). Despite the cop’s beliefs, he’s convinced by the priest that there is a demonic element, and together they work to solve the case and combat the paranormal forces working against them. Munn plays the cop’s wife, who also has a tie to the case.“
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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