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Horror Goes ‘Airborne’ When Pilots Die
Filming is currently underway on Dominic Burns’ indie thriller Airborne, which stars Julian Glover (Quatermass, Empire Strikes Back), Sebastian Street, Gemma Atkinson (Hollyoaks, 13 Hrs), and Alan Ford (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch).
Taking terror to new heights, “As a snow storm closes in, one final plane takes off. The plane reports to the ground that both pilots are dead, while the slowly dwindling number of passengers on the plane wish that they’d never left the ground.”
Black and Blue Films’ Jonathan Sothcott said today “I was attracted by the idea of making what is basically a feature length version of the “Terror At 20,00 Feet” segment of ‘Twilight Zone The Movie.’”
Burns has been updating live via Twitter and has posted a few behind-the-scenes pics. Check out the official sales art inside.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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