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What If They Made a ‘Near Dark’ Sequel?
One of the greatest vampire movies of all-time is Near Dark, the Kathryn Bigelow-directed 1987 masterpiece penned by Eric Red.
In it, a small-town farmer’s son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is turned by a beautiful drifter. Bill Paxton, Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, and Lance Henriksen starred.
But what if they made a sequel?
Red, who created the original, had some ideas, which he put down on paper. This paper became a treatment, which is shared exclusively over at AITH. Here’s what Red had to say about it:
Ten years ago, I got to thinking about what would happen if the saga of NEAR DARK continued in a way that stayed true to the modern vampire western fundamentals of the piece. The vampire clan of Jesse, Severn, Diamondback and Homer had to have kin, after all. So I mapped out a sequel. Allowing for the passage of time since the original, the follow up picks up fifteen years later and follows Caleb and Mae’s now grown daughter, Sarah. You can read it here for the first time anywhere. The film will never get made, but so what? Happy Halloween horror fans, here’s the outline of how I saw NEAR DARK II!
Survivors fight for to preserve their humanity in the final trailer for epic survival thriller The Dog Stars.
The Dog Stars opens exclusively in theaters, IMAX, and premium large formats August 28.
Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Josh Brolin (Weapons), and Margaret Qualley (The Substance) star.
The film is “set in a world where survival is instinct, but humanity is a choice.
“Ridley Scott tells the story of Hig, a young pilot who, together with a military survivalist, Bangley, has carved out an efficient but isolated homestead in a brutal post-apocalyptic world until a mysterious radio transmission spurs Hig to venture into the unknown in search of the hope and humanity he still believes exists.”
Guy Pearce, Benedict Wong, and Allison Janney also star.
The film is based on Peter Heller’s bestselling novel and written by Mark L. Smith (Overlord, The Revenant) and produced by Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, Mark L. Smith, and Cliff Roberts.
The final trailer below previews some post-apocalyptic thrills and feral night sieges, but don’t expect your standard fare here. “We’re doing too many end-of-the-world stories,” Scott recently told Empire of his choice to bypass typical zombie depictions. “This is not The Road. I did not want to do World War Z again; no zombies, please. I thought, ‘What the fuck am I gonna do here?’”
“I think people will be surprised and engaged, actually. I would say, hmm… charmed as well,” Scott says. “Although, there is some violence.”
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