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‘Children of the Corn’ Is Shooting Under the Title ‘Runaway’!
I love all of the juicy gossip that’s been bleeding out of Dimension’s grasps. They lost the rights to the Halloween franchise, delayed the release of Amityville: The Awakening to 2017, and seemingly rushed a new Hellraiser into production.
Then, out of nowhere, we found out exclusively that they were also allegedly in production on a new Children of the Corn, which we were told was being filmed under the direction of John Gulager, the filmmaker behind Feast and Piranha 3D.
I want to send seriously love to Bloody’s @jandrysays who tipped us to the film’s title, which also led to a plethora of information.
We have confirmed that the tenth Children of the Corn is shooting under the title Runaway, and it now in production in Oklahoma City, OK – yes, near the same locations that Gary Tunnicliffe used for Hellraiser: Judgment! I’m told filming wraps April 2nd.
While the director is listed as Alex Lehmann, who worked on various Dimension projects that include Feast II, The Collector and Pulse, I’m hearing that Gulager is the actual director.
We also confirmed that Joel Soisson has returned to write the next installment to his 2011 Children of the Corn: Genesis, which followed a young couple who tries to free an imprisoned child with catastrophic results.
The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant woman who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town (Gatlin, Nebraska?). She then spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town…but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.
The main character’s name is RUTH. This is important because…
Doing some research, it appears that Runaway is a direct sequel to Donald P. Borchers’ 2009 Children of the Corn remake/TV movie. In it, Alexa Nikolas starred as Ruth, the pregnant girlfriend to Isaac!
Is your head exploding yet?
Keep your eyes here as we try to uncover more…
Gatlin Returns, Inc. is producing the movie with Mike Leahy, Joel Soisson, and Sean Patrick Eaton.
It’s a bit of a slow news day here on the horror front, so indulge us for a minute while we cover something that’s not quite a horror project. The Grinch is one of the most iconic villains of time, however, and he was originally played by Boris Karloff, so we’re not totally out of line here…
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Ron Howard and Jim Carrey are in talks to reunite for a sequel to the live action How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie!
If all the deals go through, Jim Carrey would reprise his iconic role as the live action version of the Grinch, while Ron Howard would find himself seated back in the director’s chair.
Universal and Imagine Entertainment are developing, with Brian Grazer also on board to produce.
THR notes, “The untitled sequel will have a script by Alec Berg (Barry, Silicon Valley, Curb Your Enthusiasm), Jeff Schaffer (Life, Larry and The Pursuit of Unhappiness, Dave, Curb Your Enthusiasm) and David Mandel (Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm).”
The Dr. Seuss character was originally introduced in the 1957 children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas, later brought to the screen in the world of animation in the 1966 special.
Horror legend Boris Karloff voiced the Grinch in that animated classic, while Jim Carrey much later played the character in live action in Ron Howard’s 2000 movie. More recently, Benedict Cumberbatch voiced the character in the 2018 animated movie The Grinch.
David Howard Thornton even played a (more) twisted version of the Grinch in the horror movie The Mean One, a wildly unofficial adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss tale.
Another fun horror connection? Back in 2001, makeup effects legend Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London) won an Oscar for his work turning Jim Carrey into the Grinch!
In the 2000 live action holiday classic, “On the outskirts of Whoville lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans to ruin Christmas for all of the citizens of the town.”
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