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Yvonne Strahovski Joins ‘The Predator’; New Plot Details
Sure seems like the suburban setting has just been confirmed.
THR reports today that Shane Black’s now-filming reboot The Predator just added “Chuck” star Yvonne Strahovski (above) to its quickly-growing cast. Strahovski will play the mother to Jacob Tremblay’s character, a troubled young boy who is accidentally drawn into the conflict with the fierce alien creatures by her ex-husband, played by Boyd Holbrook.
Predators in suburbia. Yes please.
The cast also includes Sterling K. Brown, Trevante Rhodes, Olivia Munn, Keegan-Michael Key, Thomas Jane, and Alfie Allen.
As we recently told you, it’s been rumored that the new film will feature a 10-foot-tall, genetically enhanced Predator. It’s also been rumored to be set in the suburbs. Boyd Holbrook recently called The Predator a horror/sci-fi/western, and Black noted that it will be gory and rated R.
Kyle Strauts will play the Predator.
Black co-wrote the script with Fred Dekker and is directing.
Twentieth Century Fox’s reboot will arrive February 9th, 2018.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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