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Horror Goes Gay in Regent Studios Remakes
Several classic horror tales are getting a gay makeover courtesy of Regent Studios, its sister cable channel Here! Networks and cult director David DeCoteau. The helmer has inked a two-year deal with Regent to direct 10 films and two television series through his Rapid Heart Pictures shingle. Read on for more details.
The projects, some of which will be released theatrically by Regent in the fall, include Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” and adaptations of works by H.G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New features will also be made for “The Brotherhood” and “The Invisible Chronicles,” two ongoing TV/DVD series.
All of the legendary tales in the slate will be refashioned to include gay themes, as was DeCoteau’s recently released Poe adaptation “House of Usher.” The only film confirmed for release this Fall is the “pansexual” film noir “Playing With Fire,” starring Susan Anton and Michael Bergin.
DeCoteau has produced and/or directed more than 50 genre films over the past two decades, including “Leeches!” “Creepozoids” and “Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama,” after his start in the mid-’80s gay porn industry.
Sony returns to their own Marvel universe with the upcoming Kraven the Hunter, which has been bumped all over the release schedule. This week, it’s been bumped once more.
There was a time when Sony was going to unleash Kraven in theaters in October 2023, but the film was then bumped to August 2024. It’ll now release on December 13, 2024.
Kraven the Hunter will be the very first Marvel movie from Sony to be released into theaters with an “R” rating, with lots of bloody violence being promised.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the title character, Marvel’s ultimate predator.
“Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”
Ariana DeBose will play Calypso in the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie.
Christopher Abbott (Possessor) is playing The Foreigner, with Levi Miller (Better Watch Out) also on board. Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) will play another villain, but character details are under wraps. Russell Crowe and Fred Hechinger also star.
J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) is directing Kraven the Hunter.
The screenplay was written by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk.
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