In brief news, Intrepid Pictures is gearing up to begin filming The Strangers: Part 2 this September for Relativity (with Laurent Briet at the helm, so we're told). Meanwhile, after a decade spent creating special DVD content for the films of other directors, David Prior (who directed the awesome indie short AM1200) will make his feature helming debut on an untitled thriller for Intrepid Pictures. You can read about that inside.
Intrepid principals Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans ("The Strangers") set Prior to helm and also write a genre thriller based on a series of terrifying events that occurred in Wisconsin in the 1990s.
Prior is represented by Jeremy Platt at Spectacle and Greg Pedicin at Gersh.
He has been a favorite of directors including David Fincher, Michael Bay, Peter Weir, Tim Burton, David Cronenberg and Guillermo del Toro, generating special footage on the DVD releases of their films.
"It's a strange, circuitous route (to directing my own film), but I think I was the right guy to do this, in the right place at the right time," said Prior, a former child actor.
Prior works on about three films each year, following the directors he admires from film to film. He made enough money to finance the 40-minute short "AM1200," a horror film that served as a calling card and was well received at festivals. The short and his resume prompted Intrepid's Macy and Evans to give him a shot. He'll take a pay cut to direct his first feature.
Intrepid is prepping "The Strangers: Part 2" to shoot in September for Relativity.
I've read parts of the script for this flick and so have a lot of others, and a lot of people are loving the script. I loved the first movie and this sequel seems promising. BRING IT ON! :)
I'm excited to see what they come up with for the sequel. Chances are Liv Tyler will not be back, which sucks. I'm guessing the plot will be the exact same as the first, just with different victims and a different house. But if they could bring Liv Tyler back in with the need for some bloody revenge...kick ass!
I was a fan of the first one. I thought it was well done. Very curious to see this and where they take the story. I thought I read before that it was to take place in a trailer park ?
the script was really good. one part in it sucked and made it to Friday the 13th like. but other than that it was pretty suspenseful and probly the most depressing horror movie ever.
They better not mess this up the first one was awesome
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