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‘Diner’ Hosts Vampire and Werewolf vs Zombies
DreamWorks animation has been impressive as of late, especially when it comes to originally. With all of these remakes getting greenlit, it’s nice to see a studio doing what they can to bring odd films to the big screen. It was announced tonight that DreamWorks Animation has set Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris to write Gil’s All Fright Diner, an adaptation of the A. Lee Martinez novel that has Barry Sonnenfeld attached to direct. The plot? Let’s just say it’s a all out war between evil and evil to save the world. Read on for the skinny.
Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris previously received story credit on DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda.” The writers also originated the Ridley Scott-directed “Robin Hood” as a spec script that was subsequently rewritten by Brian Helgeland, and they were exec producers and writers on the Showtime drama series “Sleeper Cell.”
Much like the “Twilight” series, “Gil’s All Fright Diner” revolves around a vampire and a werewolf. Here, they are mismatched partners who battle zombies and try to save the world, after they stop in a diner in the desert that is a conduit for the supernatural.
“We liked the odd couple aspect of the story, this vampire and werewolf who team to save the world from an ancient demon and his modern ally, a high school cheerleader who wants to be famous.”
Kirk De Micco was the first writer on the pic.
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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