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Oren Peli Shares Never-Seen Original ‘Paranormal Activity’ Audition Videos
In 2006, young actors Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat were among thousands who responded to an unusual casting notice: an untitled horror film with a $15,000 budget.
The Blair Witch Project may have popularized the found footage style back in the ’90s, but it was Paranormal Activity that brought it back to life and helped usher in a whole new wave of handheld horror. As important and influential as it may be, the various home video releases for the film have been surprisingly lacking in bonus content. And that makes us sad.
Which is precisely why these newly-uncovered videos make us happy.
Director Oren Peli just discovered never-seen Paranormal Activity audition footage on an old hard-drive, sharing the video on YouTube for us all to watch and enjoy. The footage documents two waves of the audition process: Katie and Micah’s very first solo auditions, as well as their first joint audition. No script was provided at any point, and the auditions were uniquely ad-libbed.
What’s most impressive about the footage is that it shows just how natural Katie and Micah are as actors, and it also highlights the incredibly real chemistry they shared from the very first moment they met. A huge reason the film works so well is because of Katie and Micah’s performances, and it’s great to see early glimpses of those natural abilities in these original audition tapes.
Enjoy.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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