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Casting Bites: ‘Paradise Lost,’ ‘Remains’ and ‘Dark Shadows’
We have three casting bites for you to chew on beginning with Variety’s announcement that Bradley Cooper (Case 39, Hangover and the forthcoming The Crow reboot) is in talks to play Lucifer in Alex Proyas’ adaptation of John Milton’s epic 17th-century poem Paradise Lost for Legendary Pictures. Paradise Lost tells the story of the epic war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer, including the latter’s role in Adam and Eve’s fall from grace. Pic will be crafted as an action vehicle that will include aerial warfare, possibly shot in 3D.
Miko Hughes (Pet Sematary, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare) is set to star in Remains the adaptation of the graphic novel by Steve Niles and Kieron Dwyer that was published by IDW, reports Shocktillyoudrop. Directed by Colin Theyes, Remains follows a blackjack dealer and a dancer in Reno, Nevada find themselves trapped in a casino when a nuclear accident zombifies everyone on earth. The Chiller original production airs this year.
MTV has debunked rumors that Academy Award nominated Michael Sheen (Underworld) would be starring alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. The original followed the life of vampire Barnabas Collins, played by Depp, and his run-ins with various monsters, ghosts, and supernatural creatures.
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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