Film News: V/H/S 2 in the works, directors already attached!

To the people that loved the recently released horror anthology/found-footage film, "V/H/S". You might be excited with today's announcement...

Courtesy of Slashfilm (and original source, The Hollywood Reporter), the sleeper indie horror hit of the year, V/H/S will be getting a sequel. While one of the directors from the original is returning (Adam Wingard) as well the same production team from Bloody-Disgusting. The other directors joining it's sequel are "new-blood" to this series(?), but not only theses new directors are already well-established ones, but some of the choices are surprising ones!

The directors joining V/H/S II are:


- Gareth Evans (The Raid)/ Timo Tjahjanto (co-directing Mr. Evans segment)

- Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project)/Gregg Hale (co-directing Mr. Sanchez's segment)

- Jason Eisner (Hobo With a Shotgun)

- Adam Wingard (director of the V/H/S segment "Tape 56/Main Story, returning)

- Simon Barrett (directorial debut)



The filming locals for the sequel will be in Los Angeles, Maryland, Nova Scotia/British Columbia Canada and Indonesia.


V/H/S has garnished a notareity with the horror/film community, due to some occasions medical attention was needed during the film. The best example would be when it made it's debut at this year's Sundance Film Festival and during it's screening, some attendees fainted.

The Synopsis to V/H/S:

"When a group of petty criminals are hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a random house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn't going to be easy as they thought. In the living room, a lifeless body holds court before a hub of old television sets, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of VHS tapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger then the last."

V/H/S is currently available to view in either selected theaters nationwide or at the comfort of you home though various VOD services. V/H/S is slated to make it's home video debut on both Blu-Ray ($29.98) and DVD ($ 26.98), December 4th.

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Source:

- /Film


- The Hollywood Reporter



twitter:

- @bradmiska


- @BDisgusting


- @slashfilm


- @THR

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Film News: Godzilla (2014) gets another rewrite; casting to begin soon

According from Bloody-Disgusting.com (and original source, Variety), the upcoming Godzilla reboot's script is going through another re-write. The writer doing this rewrite is Drew Pearce. Mr. Pearce also wrote the scripts for the upcoming Iron Man 3 by Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Pictures and Sherlock Holmes 3 by Paramount Pictures.

The upcoming US Reboot of the beloved moster and originator of the genre, "Tokusatsu", was a fan-favorite at this year's San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) earlier in June.  During the Legendary Pictures panel, they showed off the teaser trailer for the upcoming film to show what direction they were going for with this "re-telling" of the radioactive lizard and the response was highly well received from it's audience.

Mr. Edwards about the film's tone:

"We're just going to take it really seriously. I've wanted to see this movie this way all my life. Imagine if this really happened – as crazy as it sounds – what would it really be like?"

The redesign of Godzilla for the upcoming reboot was describe at the panel as "a gigantic centipede-like monster", but also remaining faithful to the creature's original design.

Gareth Edwards, the director of  2010's "Monsters", is still attached as the director and casting will begin in the coming months, Variety also reported.

The reason for this rewrite, which will take 4-weeks to polish, is to:

"They [Legendary] want to age up the characters so that they would fit with the targeted aged actors"

Drew Pearce joins a long list of writers, in regards to the film's script process. 

Writers that  also gave a crack at this film were:

- David Callahan (Original draft writer/ 1st re-write)

- David S. Goyer (2nd re-write)

- Max Borenstein (3rd and recent re-write)

Godzilla made his debut back in 1954 with "Gojira" in it's native land of Japan. Two year later, in 1956, the film made it's American debut as "Godzilla: King of the Monsters!" and it's leading male actor was Raymond Burr, most famously know as TV Icon "Parry Mason".

Godzilla is still slated for release in theaters nationwide on May 16th, 2014 and the studio is expected to release it in 3d.

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Source:


- Bloody-Disgusting


- Variety


- Screen Rant



twitter:


- @Legendary


- @BDisgusting


- @TheInSneider


- @Screenrant




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