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The Thing remake gets two cast members

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton are set to star in The Thing re-imagining, according to HeatVisionBlog. The 1982 John Carpenter-directed Kurt Russell cult movie, and the 1951 Howard Hawks film The Thing From Another World, both take inspiration from a 1938 short story, Who Goes There? published in the pulp magazine Astounding. Matthijs Van ….

Details on The Thing prequel story line, plus a new casting call

A very detailed casting call for director Matthijs Van Heijningen’s (Red Rain) Thing prequel has been posted on SpoilerTV. The story line centers on a remote Antarctica outpost (presumably the Norwegian one that we last saw a dog being chased from by rifle-toting madmen in a helicopter), where an alien spaceship is discovered far beneath ….

Stephen King’s It headed to the big screen

Warner Bros. has tapped Dave Kajganich – wrote penned The Invasion and Joel Schumacher’s upcoming horror Creek – to adapt Stephen King’s horror novel It, with Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Doug Davison producing, according to Variety. The original story follows the lives of seven children in a small Maine town who confront a demonic ….

John Carpenter to direct supernatural thriller The Ward

John Carpenter is attached to direct The Ward, a supernatural thriller with Amber Heard (Pineapple Express, Never Back Down) attached to star, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen (Long Distance), The Ward follows the disturbing experience of a young woman in an institution, being terrorized by a ghost. The films ….

The Thing remake number two gets a director

Universal is ling up a new take on the sci-fi horror classic The Thing, last brought to the screen by John Carpenter in 1982. This, according to a report on Variety. Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ron Moore is attached to write the script and commercial director Matthijs Van Heijningen will direct the new project, which ….

Rob Zombie returning to direct Halloween sequel

I’ve been reading rumors about this for a for weeks, and it looks like it’s being confirmed by Dimension. Michael Myers will indeed be returning for another round of horror. The company will be bringing Rob Zombie back on board to direct a sequel to his Halloween remake. Once again, Rob Zombie has been tapped ….

Cult sci-fi classic They Live returning to silver screen

John Carpenter’s cult 1988 sci-fi flick They Live is getting a remake from Universal and Strike Entertainment. This was absolutely coming down the pike sooner or later, considering the recent The Crazies and Nightmare on Elm St. remake announcements, and the already released The Hills Have Eyes and Assault on Precinct 13 films (both of ….

Ennio Morricone in talks to score Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds

Italian music composer Ennio Morricone, whose resume includes some of the greatest action films of the 1960s through today, including such cult classics as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with Clint Eastwood, A Dollar a Head with Burt Reynolds, A Fistful of Dynamite with James Coburn, Night Flight from Moscow with Yul Brynner, ….

New Halloween Coming From Zombie

Dimension Films is proud to announce that they will make a new Halloween movie with Rob Zombie (The Devil’s Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses) writing, directing and serving as a producer. Malek Akkad of Trancas International Films (Halloween H20: 20 Years Later) will produce the feature along with Andy Gould of Vision Entertainment Group (The Devil’s Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses). Zombie will also serve as music ….

Freddy vs. Jason vs. Michael Myers

While speaking with pitofhorror.com, Robert Englund, who originated the character Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series of films, mentioned that talks are underway with Halloween director John Carpenter for a sequel to Freddy vs. Jason, that may include Halloween’s Michael Myers. Englund said that he has ideas for a plot and would like to sit down with Jamie Lee Curtis and producer Jeff Katz to discuss them. “My ….