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‘Rampage’ Will Pit The Rock Vs. Lizzie, George and Ralph!
From King Kong to Pacific Rim, Godzilla and now Jurassic World, giant monsters are all the rage in Hollywood, presumably because they can use all the CGI their black hearts desire.
With the global box office hit of Jurassic World, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema are moving quickly with their adaptation of the old video game Rampage, and has set their sights on Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for a battle between man and giant monsters.
After nearly 3 years in development, the studio is punching in on the script is by Ryan Engle (Non-Stop), with New Line working to fill the open director slot for a 2016 summer production start.
They are keeping the plot under wraps, but the game involves three giant monsters – a gorilla (George), a lizard (Lizzie) and a wolf (Ralph) – that wreak havoc on major cities and landmarks across North America.
The plan is for Johnson to star in Rampage after he completes production on Fast & Furious 8. This would also mean that the Big Trouble In Little China remake is further off than it appears…
Jennifer Holland (“Peacemaker”) and Dave Annable (“Lioness”) will lead the cast of upcoming supernatural Civil War thriller Brine, Deadline reports this afternoon.
B.J. Golnick (“Hunting Hitler”) will be directing Brine.
Brine follows a family of Confederate deserters who escape the Union bombardment of Fort Pulaski with a cache of stolen gold and disappear into the Georgia marshlands.
When they take refuge in a remote plantation house, what first appears to be salvation slowly reveals itself as part of something ancient, predatory and impossible to escape.
Jonah Wharton (Lioness), Sissy Sheridan (Chicken Girls), and Grayson Lay (Outer Banks) also star. The screenplay was written by B.J. Golnick and Jeremy Miller.
“Brine is a story about survival, but it is also a story about inheritance…The violence we pass down, the myths we create to justify it, and the cost of trying to break free,” Golnick previews.
“We intend for the film to feel intimate, historically grounded and deeply unnerving, as if the supernatural elements weren’t invented, but unearthed from the marsh itself.”
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