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Adam Wingard Directing “Event Horizon” Series for Amazon!
Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.
Amazon is making quite the statement. As mentioned earlier, just the other week saw the release of “The Boys”, which was already renewed for a second season, while they’ve also given “The Expanse” and “Carnival Row” new season orders. They also have James Wan producing a television series based on the ’90s slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer. and just announced “Truth Seekers”, the long gestured horror-comedy starring Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as paranormal investigators. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
It appears Amazon is mining all kinds of horror properties, including Paul W.S. Anderson’s classic sci-fi horror Event Horizon. Amazon is teaming with Paramount Television to develop a series adaptation of the 1997 film, reports Variety who also adds that Adam Wingard is set to executive produce and direct the potential series!
Wingard, who recently directed the film Godzilla vs. Kong, is part of the Bloody Disgusting family having headed our V/H/S and directed a segment of V/H/S/2. He also directed The Guest, You’re Next, Blair Witch and the live-action version of Death Note.
The film’s title referred to a spaceship that disappeared after testing an experimental gravity drive capable of creating an artificial black hole that was meant to allow the ship to travel to distant points in the galaxy. A rescue crew and the gravity drive’s inventor are sent to investigate after the ship mysteriously reappears, only to discover that the ship traveled to a hellish dimension outside of the known universe that infects the ship with a sinister sentience, leading to multiple deaths.
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Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of “The X-Files“, which has wrapped filming on the pilot.
Patel confirmed the news in a chat with The Direct, while reiterating that he and Deadwyler play new characters.
“I don’t want to say anything that’s going to get me disappeared. Needless to say, myself and Danielle Deadwyler are playing completely new characters, and we just wrapped on the pilot. If we get to do more… we’ll see where we go from there,” Patel said.
That last sentence is noteworthy, as Patel is reminding that Hulu has only ordered the pilot so far. A full series order has yet to be greenlit.
It’s a good reminder, considering that Hulu also ordered a pilot for the “Buffy: New Sunnydale” reboot that was filmed and delivered earlier this year, only for the streamer to send shockwaves when it opted not to move forward with the series.
As for “The X-Files” pilot, Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler writes and directs the pilot. Jennifer Yale (“The Copenhagen Test”) serves as showrunner.
Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
Patel and Deadwyler previously co-starred together on “Station Eleven.”
Other actors who have signed on for guest roles include Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand, and Sofia Grace Clifton.
“The X-Files” originally ran for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002, with two additional seasons arriving in 2016 and 2018. 218 episodes were produced in total, along with two feature films: 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Himesh Patel in “Station Eleven”
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