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‘Beetlejuice’ 2, ‘Something Wicked,’ ‘Gremlins,’ vampires galore: Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2015 to-do list

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Grahame-Smith is producing this two-film adaptation of King’s epic 1986 novel about a shapeshifting evil that feeds off the fear of children—most often in the form of a bloodthirsty clown known as Pennywise. Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) is directing and co-writing the first installment, which will focus solely on a group of kids who join forces to fight back against the malevolent force. A second film would pick up with the same characters as adults, returning home to discover It has resurrected.

The novel was previously adapted into an ABC miniseries in 1990, starring Tim Curry as the deranged, sharp-fanged clown (pictured above, floating).

“I think that if anything, [the new film] will bring back some of the viciousness of the book that they couldn’t do with the miniseries because it was for broadcast,” Grahame-Smith says. “I think it’s going to be very scary, but I also feel like you’ve got Cary who is going to direct these kids—and he’s incredible at casting, incredible at shooting. He’s incredible with tone and atmosphere. One of the things I wanted to do is be a part of one of the really good King adaptations. As we know, there is an echelon of King adaptations that are classics. There are some that are okay. There are some that we’d rather forget.”

Status: “We’re going to get a draft, what is supposed to be the shooting [script], any day now from Cary and his writing partner,” Grahame-Smith says. “We’re doing a deal for them to write the second movie. Our hope is to prep sometime in the next few months and shoot in the summer. That one is as much on the runway as we can possibly be. I know New Line is ready to go.”

THE THINGS THEY LEFT BEHIND
Grahame-Smith is writing another adaptation of a King story, a TV series based on this short story about a World Trade Center worker who evades the 9/11 terror attacks only to find relics of his friends and colleagues mysteriously appearing in his home. The TV drama, which Grahame-Smith will co-produce with Greg Berlanti (Arrow, The Flash), drops the 9/11 element and instead has the hero discovering random objects from people who died before their time, leaving unfinished business for him to help resolve.

Status: “I thought this could be a really cool X-Files, Stephen King-centric procedural show,” Grahame-Smith says. “We sold it to CBS. I just finished the first draft of the script and I’m doing notes now. Hopefully we get to make the pilot in the spring. Then, hopefully we get ordered to series and get to be on CBS next fall.”

Robert Kirkman on The Walking Dead Companion Series

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Robert Kirkman Calls The Walking Dead Companion Series ‘Startlingly Different’

Cameras are getting ready to roll on AMC’s upcoming companion series to “The Walking Dead” and EW caught up with series creator Robert Kirkman, who revealed, without too many details, that the series will be quite different from the regular series.

“I will say that this is going to be a show about family,” Kirkman said. “But it’s going to be a show about a different type of family that we haven’t explored in The Walking Dead thus far. So what we’re trying to do with The Walking Dead spinoff is keep the story as familiar as possible for people that love The Walking Dead, so you’ll get the kind of things that you expect from a Walking Dead story. But, at the same time, we’ll want to tell these stories in a completely different way with completely different people in a completely different setting that’s going to make for a fundamentally different show. I think the look and feel of The Walking Dead spinoff is going to be startlingly different.”

Kirkman went on to address the Los Angeles setting, which will provide an interesting contrast to the Atlanta location of the primary series.

“It’s Los Angeles. It’s a corner of the world that we have never explored in the comic book series. So, theoretically, something like this could be happening in Los Angeles in the comic book series, but we don’t show you this area of the country in the comic book series. So it fits within that world, but it is all new characters, all new events and all kinds of crazy stuff.”

Co-created by Kirkman and Dave Erickson, the series will take place in the same zombie apocalypse depicted in “The Walking Dead” albeit in a different location and potentially at a different point in time. Erickson will serve as the showrunner for the new series, which will be executive produced by Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert. Adam Davidson will direct the pilot episode which sees Cliff Curtis will lead the companion series alongside Kim Dickens. They’re joined by Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam-Carey.

I am a huge walking dead fan and i am excited to see what is going to happen in this spin off series!  what are your thoughts?

JURASSIC WORLD’s Menacing D-Rex Hybrid Dino Revealed in Promo Art

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Some new promo art has surfaced for director Colin Trevorrow‘s Jurassic World, and it gives us our best look yet at the deadly genetically engineered D-Rex dinosaur also known as Indominus Rex. This think looks crazy, and I can’t wait to see what it’s capable of!
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28 MONTHS LATER is Being Discussed by Alex Garland and Danny Boyle

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I really enjoyed the zombie apocalypse films 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. Danny Boyle directed the first film from a script written by Alex Garland, but they weren’t really involved with the sequel other than being executive producers. For those of you who are also fans of the franchise, you’ll be happy to hear that Garland and Boyle have been discussing a 28 Months Later sequel! Garland revealed the news in an interview with IGN, saying:

“We’ve got an idea. Danny [Boyle] and [producer] Andrew [Macdonald] and I have been having quite serious conversations about it so it is a possibility. It’s complicated.”

It’s good to know that the conversations have been serious! That’s a good sign, but the complications are not. So why is it complicated?

“There’s a whole bunch of reasons why it’s complicated, which are boring so I won’t go into, but there’s a possibility.”

At least he’s being optimistic and keeping that possibility alive. He goes on:

“It’s more likely to be 28 Months than 28 Years. 28 Years gives you one more place to go. 28 Decades is probably taking the piss.”

so lets see what happens  the series was pretty decent  so i would like to see what can be done with this film

Ross Marquand Joins The Walking Dead Cast

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TV Line is reporting Ross Marquand will be joining the cast of The Walking Dead in the second half of the show’s fifth season. Marquand played Paul Newman in the sixth season of Mad Men.

AMC would not confirm who Marquand is playing, but TV Line speculates that it may be Aaron, a gay character from The Walking Dead comic book series, basing it on Kirkman’s previous confirmation of a prominent gay character from the comics coming to the television series.

The Walking Dead returns to AMC on Sunday, February 8, 2015.

New Details on ASH VS. EVIL DEAD Series

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A few new details have surfaced regarding the upcoming Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell horror series Ash Vs. Evil Dead, which fans are all pretty freakin’ excited about! The episodes will be half an hour long, and in an interview with IGN, Starz head Chris Albrecht talked about the upcoming series.

“The half hour idea was their idea. And I can tell you it’s a chock-full half hour.”

Well, it’s good to know that those 30 minutes are going to be packed full of all kinds of great stuff. When asked where the series will shoot, he said,

“We are shooting it in New Zealand. We’ll have to import some cars that drive left hand and import some signs because it kind of takes place in classic American towns or cities.”

I’m curious about the show taking place in classic American towns and cities. It sounds like there’s going to be some traveling going on. In a previous interview with EW, Campbell used The Walking Dead as a reference point and explained how it will be different.

“It’s about as big of a counterpart to Walking Dead as you could program because Walking Dead is unrelentingly grim and hugely popular. We’re going to give people a little of the old fashioned slapstick: horror and comedy. The beauty of Starz is there’s no content issues. Let’s face it: fans want the carnage and the mayhem. So we intend to give them quite the explosion of viscera. Most of it directed at me, unfortunately.”

Campbell also talked about some of the other, younger characters that will be joining Ash on his adventure against the deadites, They haven’t been cast yet, but he explained,

“One is a male-bonding situation, and the other is a father-figure deal, since Ash could have a daughter the same age as this character. Hopefully we’ll pull Ash out of his loner-veteran mode and get him back into being a human being again.”

There has been speculation that the daughter could be the character Mia, who was played by Jane Levy in the Evil Dead remake. There’s no confirmation of that, but I think it would be cool if that ended up being the case. As for when we will see the show premiere, Albrecht said,

“I think most likely it will be fourth quarter [of 2015]. End of third quarter, fourth quarter, something like that. We’ve got a lot of shows this year. We’re very, very excited.”

Sounds pretty great what do you think?

Amazon Cancels X-FILES Creator Chris Carter’s New Series THE AFTER

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Last February Amazon premiered the pilot episode for Chris Carter’s horror series The After. Shortly after they announced that they would be developing it into a series. Almost a year later Amazon has announced that they’ve changed their mind, and they will no longer be moving forward with the show. Roy Price of Amazon released the following statement:

“We have decided to not move forward with The After. We would like to thank Chris Carter, the phenomenal cast, crew and producers for all their efforts.”

This is kind of a shame. I though the pilot episode showed some real potential for a series, and audiences seemed to like it as well. Apparently, Amazon thought so too. The pilot starred Jamie Kennedy, Sharon Lawrence, and Adrian Pasdar, and it centered around several people coping with a modern-day apocalypse.

Carter has kind of had a rough go of it since The X-Files ended in 2002. The guy created one of my all-time favorite series, and he hasn’t really done anything amazing since. In my mind, this guy should have been in same kind of place that J.J. Abrams is in right now. It makes me wonder if he just pissed a bunch of people off along the way.

The Walking Dead: Surviving Together Trailer Released

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AMC has released a new trailer for the second half of The Walking Dead Season Five.

The hit series returns on February 8 to find Rick Grimes and his group of survivors on the road together, having been driven from the Father Gabriel’s church following the fall of the prison and the showdown in Atlanta.

You can check it out below.

Paul Feig Updates on His Ghostbusters Reboot, Hints at an Expanded Cast

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The female-driven Ghostbusters reboot is moving forward at Sony Pictures with Paul Feig set to direct. The Bridesmaids and The Heat helmer has spoken with Empire about his plans for the film, revealing that he wants to make it scarier than the original, target a PG-13 rating and offer a Ghostbusters team that may be significantly larger than fans might be expecting.

“Right now, honestly, there could be 50 Ghostbusters,” Feig tells the magazine (via CBM). “I’m just waiting to get our first draft of the script together to go, ‘Who makes sense in these roles?’ If I put the list in front of me of people that have said they want to do it, talk about a Sophie’s Choice. When you do a movie like ‘Ghostbusters,’ people get very interested.”

Feig also offered further confirmation that the new film will be a total reboot.

“I have too much respect for the original one,” he says. “There’s also the feeling that once the world knows ghosts and has seen them busted on such a large scale, they run the risk of becoming pedestrian. There’s something fun about introducing our world, which has never seen ghosts to the phenomenon of ghosts. I love origin stories and to introduce new characters.”

Tonally, Feig says that he’s aiming for something that’s both funny and truly scary, although he’s not looking to push for an R rating.

“I want ours to be scarier than the original, to be quite honest,” he continues. “Katie Dipold and I are so focused on wanting to do scary comedy. We don’t want to hold back… The reason I do a lot of R-Rated comedies is that you want a movie to feel honest. But the Ghostbusters world doesn’t need that level of swearing. We’ll have to be PG-13 with this one. I would like to make it R-Rated, but I won’t. You want the biggest number of people to watch it and not be put off by it.”

Back in September, original Ghostbusters star Bill Murray revealed his own “fan cast” for a female-driven franchise reboot, listing Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids, Tammy), Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), Linda Cardinelli (“Freaks and Geeks,” “Mad Men”) and Emma Stone (The Help, The Amazing Spider-Man) as his top choices. Since then, Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson has revealed that she has met for a part, although no official casting has, as of yet, taken place. As always, check back for details as they become available.