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Breck Eisner NOT Attached to ‘The Brood’ Remake
While Breck Eisner has the impressive remake of The Crazies arriving in theaters next Friday, the son of Walt Disney chief executive officer Michael is still having trouble getting his next off the ground. While he was originally developing Uni’s Creature from the Black Lagoon redo, it was recently revealed that he’ll be bringing David Cronenberg’s classic The Brood back to the big screen. Not so fast says SyFy. “I’m not signed on [The Brood], no,” Eisner told the site Thursday. “I was approached about the movie, and I’m just in discussions about it.” Adding, “I like the writer, Cory Goodman’s, script…I’m a big fan of the original. I still have yet to decide if it’s something I really want to be doing. Is it a movie for me? I’m still kind of soul-searching on that one.” The original followed a woman who telepathically communicates with her group of mutant children, instructing them to act out violently.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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