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Emmy Winner John Renck In Talks To Direct “The Magus” Adaptation

The Emmy Award-winning “Chernobyl” John Renck is currently in negotiation to direct the adaptation of John Fowles’ novel for the mini-series “The Magus,” Variety reports. “The Magus,” originally published back in 1966, is set on a Greek isle where Nicholas Urfe, a young school teacher, finds himself embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster, which becomes increasingly dark and serious. “1917’s” Neal Street Productions produces along with Pippa Harris and Sam Mendes and is written by Tom Edge (Judy, “The Crown”). The novel has been adapted once before in the 1960s by Fowles himself and starred Anthony Quinn. Take a look at the 1968 film’s trailer (below). Featured Image By Variety

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 3, 2020

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Leigh Whannell’s ‘Upgrade’ Is Getting A Series Adaptation

Blumhouse Television and UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, are teaming up for the series adaption of Leigh Whannell’s 2018 sci-fi, thriller Upgrade, which Whannell co-created and will direct, as well as executive produce along with showrunner Tim Walsh (Treadstone, Chicago P.D., Shooter). The series picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an evolved version of STEM and a new host in a world in which the government repurposes STEM to help curb criminal activity. A writer’s room has begun work on the series’ first season. Krystal Ziv Houghton and James Roland, who ran the second season of The Purge, have joined Whannell and Walsh. The film, which Whannell both wrote and directed, starred Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, and Harrison Gilbertson. In the film, after his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace (Marshall-Green) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

May 29, 2020

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A First Look At Gregory Lamberson’s Adaptation Of Widow’s Point

From Gregory Lamberson (interview), the director of Slime City and Johnny Gruesome, comes Widow’s Point, the feature adaptation of the critically acclaimed supernatural book by Richard and Billy Chizmar which is now nearing the end of production. We have gotten our hands on the first batch of images to share with you. Craig Sheffer (Nightbreed, One Tree Hill) stars in the chiller adapted and directed by Gregory Lamberson (Slime City, Johnny Gruesome), which Tamar Lamberson produced, and Richard Chizmar and Erin Elizabeth Heald executive produced. Sheffer plays Thomas Livingston, a down on his luck author who spends a weekend locked in a haunted lighthouse as a publicity stunt to promote his next book. As he uncovers the lighthouse’s terrifying history, Livingston becomes a target for powerful, otherworldly forces hell bent on his destruction. KateLynn E. Newberry, Dominic Luongo, Kaelin Lamberson, John Renna, Richard Satterwhite, and Willow Xylia Anwar co-star, with Billy Chizmar portraying one of the lighthouse’s victims. The film

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 17, 2018

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James Wan And ‘Stranger Things” Shawn Levy Teaming Up For Netflix Movie

Shawn Levy, the producer of Netflix’s hit series “Strangers Things”, has just announced that he is teaming up with horror heavy-hitter James Wan (The Conjuring franchise) for the Netflix adaptation of the New York Times best-seller “There’s Someone Inside Your House” by Stephanie Perkins. Deadline reports that the project is “similar in tone to Netflix’s Stranger Things: think 1980s and ’90s slasher movie meets a John Hughes coming-of-age tale like The Breakfast Club.” In the book, “More than a year after her parents sent her away from Hawaii to live with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska, Makani Young is still adjusting to her new life. She’s made a small group of close friends and even flirted with romance, but her past in Hawaii is still hard to forget. And then … one by one the students of her new high school begin to die in a series of gruesome murders. Makani doesn’t know who’s next on the list. Between this,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 18, 2018

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