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‘REC’ Director Leaves ‘Circus’, Filmax FInds Replacement
While REC, REC 2 co-writer/director Paco Plaza was once attached, Aullidos revealed today that Daniel Calparsoro will now be getting behinds the camera for Filmax’s Circus. The project has been in development for quite some time now, now word on when this sucker is set to go into production. BEyond the break you’ll find a long synopsis and early promo art released earlier this year.
The Nevada desert; silence reigns under an implacable sun. The advancing silhouette of a car stands out on the horizon as it approaches along an unending highway, the drone of the engine coming closer and closer. An animal suddenly crosses the highway; the car swerves abruptly to avoid it and loses control.
`A tiger in the middle of the desert?’ Inside the vehicle chaos reigns, one by one, the members of the Mason family climb out of the mass of twisted metal as best they can; the mother is hurt badly. Outside the heat hits down and the situation is dramatic: there is no mobile, nor any other sign of civilisation, only dust, sand and stones. From the stop of a dune Bobby, the younger son, describes what looks like the big top of a circus. Is it a mirage? It is their only hope.
The family seeks help in the caravans surrounding the tent and the dirty and ragged inhabitants duly attend to their distress call. But the Masons cannot hide to their revulsion towards these strange beings.
The mirage of their salvation vanishes as a new menace threatens the Mason family. Outside the circus ring and under the burning desert sun, clowns, acrobats and lion tamers reveal their spectacular abilities for more than mere entertainment. Unwillingly, the Masons have now become the main event…
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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