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Lionsgate Remaking ‘Cube’ With the ‘Prometheus’ Writer!
Before Lionsgate was the Big Bad Wolf who owned Summit Entertainment, they were a little mini-major that could, and released all sorts of phenomenal direct-to-DVD titles that blessed me with a wide variety of genre films for my weekend release.
One of the best discoveries was the 1997 Cube, Vincenzo Natali’s film festival hit that spawned two sequels (Cube: Hypercube and Cube Zero).
Now, nearly 20 years later (where the hell has the time gone?!), Lionsgate will remake the sci-fi horror film that begins when 7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics awaken in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.
Saman Kesh, the up-and-coming director who caught the town’s attention with his short “Controller,” is attached to direct Cubed, a re-imagining of the movie, says THR.
Roy Lee is producing along with Jon Spaihts, best known as the co-writer of Prometheus and the in development Chris Pratt-Jennifer Lawrence sci-fi drama Passengers.
Using the original setup of seven strangers trapped in a giant cube-like structure, Cubed is described as a sci-fi survival thriller about artificial intelligence, humanity and the birth of a new “digital” race.
Phil Gawthorne is writing the script based off of Kesh’s original take.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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