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‘Meg 2’ Director Ben Wheatley Wants to Direct a ‘DOOM’ Movie
Director Ben Wheatley has been quite busy as of late, and now the director of the upcoming Meg 2 has decided to toss another bone for DOOM fans. In a recent appearance on The Playlist podcast, Wheatley expressed his desire to do his own take on the famed first-person shooter.
During the podcast, when the topic of Wheatley being forced to drop out of directing the upcoming Tomb Raider 2 due to scheduling conflicts came up, the director mentioned his desire to still work on a film adaptation of a video game. To which, he mentioned id Software’s baby.
“I still want to make a DOOM film though,” says Wheatley. “I know it’s been done, but come on! Or Counter-Strike, that would be the one I’d like to make.”
Obviously, expressing a desire to direct an entry in the series is one thing as opposed to actually doing it, but with fans divided on the beautiful mess that was Tony Giglio’s 2019 DOOM: Annihilation (and with Giglio expressing a desire to direct a sequel to that one), why not give Wheatley a chance? Plus, given the appeal, he’d have a better shot at DOOM than Counter-Strike.
As for The Meg 2, Jason Statham is expected to return for the sequel and have creative involvement on the project, with a script written by Dean Georgaris and Jon & Erich Hoeber.
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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