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Dark Castle Finds Helmer For Ghostly ‘Apparition’
An up-and-coming director we’ve been aching to see get behind the camera is Todd Lincoln, who was once attached to The Fly and is working on the forthcoming Hack/Slash. Now the young director is teaming up with Dark Castle to write and direct a new haunted house tale, The Apparition, for Joel Silver’s genre label. Read all about it inside.
Unfortunately, full details of the project, an original idea developed by Lincoln, Dark Castle exec Alex Heineman and producer Daniel Alter, is being kept under wraps, but the plot is said to be based on true events.
“Apparition” marks the second project Lincoln and Alter have conjured up at Warner Bros.-based Dark Castle over the past month, after setting up sci-fi thriller The Nye Incidents there. That pic will be based on Whitley Strieber and Craig Spector’s graphic novel.
It’s also one of the first projects Dark Castle has picked up since former Rogue Pictures prexy Andrew Rona was tapped prexy of Silver Pictures and co-prexy of the genre label late last year.
Dark Castle has previously ventured into haunted house territory with “Thirteen Ghosts” and “House on Haunted Hill.”
Silver, Rona and Heineman will produce through Dark Castle with Alter. Final producing credits are still being worked out.
Alter also has an adaptation of “Johnny Quest” set up at WB with producer Adrian Askarieh. Duo collaborated on “Hitman” at Fox. Alter and Askarieh also have adaptations of the Devil’s Due books “Hack/Slash” and “Lost Squad” set up at Relativity-owned Rogue.
Lincoln, who established himself as a musicvideo and commercials helmer, had previously been attached to a remake of “The Fly” at Fox.
The classic tale of Hansel & Gretel has been brought to the screen a handful of times over the years, and now an upcoming stop motion animated film has attracted some A-list talent.
Variety reports that Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) and Lars Knudsen have boarded the Hansel & Gretel movie as executive producers through their company Square Peg.
Chilean filmmakers Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña (The Hyperboreans) are directing. Variety notes, “The story is expected to twist the fairy tale into inimitable shapes.”
The duo co-directed the stop motion movie The Wolf House back in 2018, and they also worked in the animation department on Ari Aster’s most recent movie, Beau Is Afraid.
“It’s our very personal adaptation of the classic fairy tale, with the main difference that Hansel and Gretel are both boys in this version, at least at the beginning of the story,” Cristóbal León explained. In this telling, “the story itself gets lost,” León added.
“Cociña and León are among the true originals working in animation right now. You can trace their sensibility back to several artists of the uncanny, but there is no real analogue for the effect that their work produces in the viewer,” Aster told the website.
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