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Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ Shooting in Australia, Jim Carey’s ‘True Crimes’ in Poland
Twentieth Century Fox’s tentatively titled Alien: Paradise Lost, Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus sequel will shoot in Australia next year, Variety confirms.
Scott, hot off The Martian, will direct the Alien movie, which is the sixth in that sequence. He too sent a video message and praised Australian crews and locations, explains the site.
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation‘s Rebecca Ferguson is allegedly in talks to join Scott’s Alien: Paradise Lost, which is targeting release on May 30, 2017. Keep up with all of the zany Alien-related news in our hub.
In other news, ScreenDaily reports that principal photography on Alexandros Avranas’ thriller True Crimes, starring Jim Carrey, will begin in Poland’s Krakow on November 7th.
Inspired by the 2008 New Yorker article “True Crimes – A Post-Modern Murder Mystery” penned by David Grann, the thriller centers on a murder investigation that takes clues found in a crime novelist’s book, which strikes a bizarre resemblance to the case.
Carrey will be joined by an impressive European acting ensemble including Ida star Agata Kulesza, Nymphomaniac’s Charlotte Gainsbourg, Aki Kaurismäki regular Kati Outing, Polish actor Zbigniew Zamachowski (Walesa: Man Of Hope), and New Zealand-born Marton Czokas (The Equalizer, Sin City 2).
The Last King Of Scotland scribe Jeremy Brock scripted the adaptation, which sees Brett Ratner and John Cheng producing through their RatPac Entertainment, while David Gerson produces under his shingle InterTitle Films. Ida producer Ewa Puszczynska will serve in a co-producing capacity.
Principal photography is scheduled to wrap on December 20 with the production then moving to Berlin for post-production at Post Republic.
It’s been eight years since Ari Aster came onto the scene and helped usher in a new wave of horror with Hereditary, one of the rare horror movies from the past ten years that still seems to come up in conversation every single week. And it’s back in the conversation this week, with Ari Aster revealing at an event that he’s already written a prequel to Hereditary!
Ari Aster was on hand at the American Cinematheque for Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair last week, a Los Angeles festival that screened all of Aster’s movies to date. The website Gold Derby reports that Aster revealed the Hereditary prequel script during a Q&A at the event, and you can watch the full Q&A conversation below for confirmation on the website’s report.
“I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster told the crowd, referring to Hereditary. “It never feels like the right time to do it. It’s a prequel, not a sequel so I don’t know where this goes.”
Would a potential Hereditary prequel dig deeper into the mythology of demon king Paimon? Unfortunately, Aster provides no further details on his prequel approach at this time.
Aster said of Hereditary during the same Q&A, “I was just trying to make a really good horror movie.” I think most horror fans would agree that he more than accomplished that goal, and the past eight years have proven that Hereditary is an enduring classic of its generation.
We celebrated the fifth anniversary of Hereditary here on BD back in 2023.
Ron Breton wrote, “Hereditary offers a similar emotional resonance to this new generation of horror – my generation of horror– as movie-goers in the seventies when they first saw Exorcist. Much like Aster’s film, we see the incomprehensible evil wear the face of a young girl; the victim of a raw deal she had no say in, as it tears a family to its core. Sure, both films offer so many terrifying visuals that can make the hair stand up on anyone’s neck – but it also depicts intense relationships and emotions that are tangible. Real. Familiar.”
“In that familiarity lies the uncanny, ready to rear its ugly head and force us to confront thoughts and horrors laying dormant and clawing at our psyche,” Breton continued his 5th anniversary celebration of Hereditary. “And it doesn’t matter if it’s been five or fifty years. These horrors are always there, as we become pawns in its horrible, hopeless machine.”
Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, and Milly Shapiro star in Hereditary. In the film, “A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.”
That’s putting it mildly, eh?!
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