Post by Bartwald on May 12, 2004 16:22:42 GMT -5
From Reel Horror:
Variety reports that Management-production shingle Circle of Confusion is adapting and producing the Jack Ketchum horror novel "Red."
Book is about the terror that can be wrought by a wronged pet owner; Lucky McKee will direct.
Circle partner Jason Lust brought the project to United Artists, which purchased the script by Stephen Susco and is financing the pic.
Lust and partners David Engel, Lawrence Mattis and David Alpert are producing.
"Red" is the story of a man whose dog is killed by a group of hoodlums and the terror that ensues when he sets out to avenge his pet's death.
Lust said the film will be in the tough, old-school vein of director-writer Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs," which starred Dustin Hoffman as a mild-mannered math professor forced into violent confrontation.
McKee wrote, directed and produced last year's horror pic "May," released by Lions Gate. He is in post-production on another horror film, "The Woods," starring Patricia Clarkson.
That's very good news if you ask me! The Woods should be something similar to Shyamalan's The Village (at least in the subject matter), and any Jack Ketchum adaptation is also very welcome to my DVD player!
Variety reports that Management-production shingle Circle of Confusion is adapting and producing the Jack Ketchum horror novel "Red."
Book is about the terror that can be wrought by a wronged pet owner; Lucky McKee will direct.
Circle partner Jason Lust brought the project to United Artists, which purchased the script by Stephen Susco and is financing the pic.
Lust and partners David Engel, Lawrence Mattis and David Alpert are producing.
"Red" is the story of a man whose dog is killed by a group of hoodlums and the terror that ensues when he sets out to avenge his pet's death.
Lust said the film will be in the tough, old-school vein of director-writer Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs," which starred Dustin Hoffman as a mild-mannered math professor forced into violent confrontation.
McKee wrote, directed and produced last year's horror pic "May," released by Lions Gate. He is in post-production on another horror film, "The Woods," starring Patricia Clarkson.
That's very good news if you ask me! The Woods should be something similar to Shyamalan's The Village (at least in the subject matter), and any Jack Ketchum adaptation is also very welcome to my DVD player!
