Thursday, February 8, 2007
By: MrDisgusting
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We scored a look at the first ever stills from the short used to pitch the film (here), and today Fangoria scored first news that Darren Lynn Bousman's (Saw II, Saw III) dream project, REPO! The Genetic Opera, has officially been greenlit. Twisted Pictures, the same team behind Saw and Dead Silence, will produce the pic, which is slated to shoot later this year for a 2008 release. The online mag also reports that the actors who starred in the original short—like genre vets Michael Rooker and Shawnee Smith—are not expected to return for the feature-length film, but that may change. Inside you'll find the official announcement! Click the title above for a synopsis.
Indie mini-major Lionsgate has pacted with production banner Twisted Pictures for Darren Lynn Bousman's latest horror outing "Repo! The Genetic Opera," the parties said here, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Lionsgate and Twisted previously teamed to bring audiences the boxoffice frightener franchise success "Saw."
Bousman will direct "Repo" from an original story by co-composers and screenwriters Terrence Zdunich and Darren Smith. Bousman, the director of "Saw 2" and "Saw 3" will reunite with his previous collaborators on those two titles, the Twisted Pictures team of Mark Burg and Oren Koules, who will produce the film.
Bousman's next horror film was announced to buyers here by Lionsgate president, international sales Stephanie Denton and Twisted's Burg and Koules.
Lionsgate took on sales duties after seeing a 12-minute promo reel that Bousman had created in half a day, Lionsgate said.
Lionsgate's Denton, Peter Block, president acquisitions and co-productions and Jason Constantine, exec. vp acquisitions.
Lionsgate will distribute the title in the U.S. and the U.K. as well as handling international sales in the rest of the world.
Bousman described "Repo" as his "passion" since the day he read the script.
"I had been waiting for the right opportunity to make it into a feature. I couldn't be in a better position as Twisted Pictures and Lionsgate have become family: they are not scared to take risks and they stand behind their filmmakers," Bousman said.
The new film is set in the not-so-distant future where an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet, killing tens of millions. As scientists feverishly make plans for a massive organ harvest, a multi-billion dollar biotech company, GeneCo manufactures salvation but for a price, offering easy organ payment plans.
The idea for the feature originated when Bousman directed the first theater run of "Repo! The Genetic Opera" in the Fall of 2002 after meeting with Zdunich and Smith and reading their original stage play.
Source: Hollywood Reporter, Fangoria
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