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Prepare for The Rock’s ‘Rampage’
After the success of The Fate of the Furious, headed by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, it’s hard to think that this video game adaptation will fail. Rampage, which will star Johnson as one of many humans who will battle not one, but three giant moonsters, has officially entered production.
Principal photography kicks off today on our #Rampage movie. @MalinAkerman & #JakeLacy bringin’ the thunder! pic.twitter.com/4Yc8Wkn8yv
— Hiram Garcia (@hhgarcia41) April 17, 2017
From King Kong to Pacific Rim, Godzilla and now Jurassic World, giant monsters are all the rage in Hollywood, presumably because they can use all the CGI their black hearts desire.
With the global box office hit of Kong: Skull Island and Jurassic World, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema moved quickly with their adaptation of the old video game Rampage
The film is on track for an April 20, 2018, release and has an ensemble cast that includes Moonlight‘s Naomie Harris, “The Walking Dead‘s” Jeffrey Dean Morgan, The Final Girls‘s Malin Akerman, as well as Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”), Jake Lacy (“Girls”), Marley Shelton, PJ Byrne (Final Destination 5), Jack Quaid (Tragedy Girls), Matt Gerald (Bright) and Breanne Hill (San Andreas).
They are keeping the plot under wraps, but the game involves three giant monsters – a gorilla (George), a lizard (Lizzie) and a wolf (Ralph) – that wreak havoc on major cities and landmarks across North America.
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‘The American Winner’: Flula Borg to Star in Horror Satire About a Tech Billionaire with a Monstrous Secret
Flula Borg (The Suicide Squad) and Academy Award winner Troy Kotsur (Primate, CODA) have been set to star in satirical horror movie The American Winner, which is currently in production per Deadline.
The American Winner will mark the feature debut of Iranian writer/director Farbod Ardebili.
Borg stars as “a megalomaniacal tech billionaire who manipulates markets from his residence while protecting the bizarre ‘being’ he’s accidentally impregnated and must feed to keep his progeny alive. The entire film takes place in the palatial bathroom of the Silicon Valley guru.”
The bit about Borg’s character impregnating a mysterious “being” in that logline certainly has our interest.
Producer Daniel Brandt’s comments to Deadline also intrigue: “When we met Flula we knew he was the perfect person to bring our tech-centric Patrick Bateman to life. We view this one as a five-minutes-into-the-future tech world update of American Psycho infused with a The Thing-style monster that is really going to freak people out. The American Winner is a wild blend of horror and satire that pulls no punches and is chock full of relevant commentary that we feel will resonate with audiences today.”
Ashby Gentry (Netflix’s My Life with the Walter Boys), Misha Osherovich (Freaky), Toks Olagundoye (Frasier), Lorena Gonzalez and Shavvon Lin also star.
The film was produced by brothers Dane and Cole Eckerle on behalf of their label Bad Grey alongside Daniel Brandt and Mark Finley of Plain Text.
John Henry Hinkel is also a producer on the film. Exec producers include Tom Spriggs and Atil Singh of Principal Entertainment, Lorena E. Gonzalez, Erin O’Connor and Maurice Black of Story Incubator, Katherine Kendall, Shavvon Lin and Jimmy Cai.
Troy Kotsur as “Adam” and Gia Hunter as “Erin” in Primate from Paramount Pictures.
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