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“Masters of Horror” Creator Mick Garris Developing New Horror Anthology
The world could always use more horror anthologies.
Remember the Showtime series “Masters of Horror”? The show, which spanned two seasons and 26 episodes, featured new horror films from masters like John Carpenter, John Landis and Tobe Hooper, and it was the brainchild of Mick Garris. A master in his own right, Garris has directed everything from Critters 2 to The Shining miniseries, and he’s got more horror on the way.
In an interview with Nerdist, Garris just let it slip that he’s working on a new horror anthology!
Garris told the site:
I’m working on putting together an anthology movie that will be coming together very soon. It’s kind of secret right now but we are well into it and just making something I think, for genre fans of which I count myself one, will be very, very happy with and excited about.
He didn’t dig any deeper into the project, but we can’t help but wonder if Garris has once again put together an all-star team to make something special for us fans. Garris also created the NBC anthology series “Fear Itself,” so he’s certainly got a knack for bringing together fan-favorite horror filmmakers and letting them do their thing. Could the new film be an extension of that?
We’ll report more as we learn it.
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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