Lots of news has emerged from the Hammer camp last two days!
We interviewed Hammer president Simon Oakes, where he revealed the revived production company will start work on The Quiet Ones as their next project.
Hammer have enjoyed critical success with excellent vampire remake Let Me In, spooky Irish horror Wake Wood and the Hilary Swank-starring retro stalking thriller The Resident. They've just scored a hit with their big screen adaptation of The Woman In Black, with star Daniel Radcliffe leading them to their biggest box office hit - it opened in the US to $21 million.
Exclusive Media and Hammer now confirm John Pogue (Quarantine 2: Terminal) is to write and direct supernatural thriller The Quiet Ones, based on a true story.
Inspired by true events, The Quiet Ones tells the story of an unorthodox professor who uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist. Based on the theory that paranormal activity is caused by human negative energy, the rogue scientists perform a series of tests on a young patient, pushing her to the edge of sanity. As frightening occurrences begin to take place with shocking and gruesome consequences, the group quickly realises they have triggered a force more terrifying and evil than they ever could have imagined.
Pogue said: "The Quiet Ones will take its audience on a thrilling ride of jumps, scares and eerie tingles which combined with set-pieces of unbearable tension will propel them through the shadowy chambers that imprison the tortured mind. It’s a dark and claustrophobic picture which will portray how human desire can become trapped in an insidious world of its own creation and how you should always be careful what you wish for."
Oakes added: "We can’t wait to showcase The Quiet Ones at EFM. It’s an incredibly chilling and sinister picture that we are proud to be a part of."
While cast members of the ensemble piece have yet to be announced, Bloody Disgusting are reporting that Michael Sheen has been offered the lead role - one that was once rumoured for Nicolas Cage when rumours circulated last year.
The Hollywood Reporter have picked up the news that Hammer and Exclusive Media have also secured the rights to Gaslight, an original screenplay by Ian Fried.
The story, which ended up on Hollywood’s Black List of the best unproduced scripts in 2011, is being compared to From Hell and The Silence of the Lambs. In Gaslight, Jack the Ripper - secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum - is called upon to help Scotland Yard solve a series of murders that share the iconic death brand: dual puncture wounds to the neck.
We interviewed Hammer president Simon Oakes, where he revealed the revived production company will start work on The Quiet Ones as their next project.
Hammer have enjoyed critical success with excellent vampire remake Let Me In, spooky Irish horror Wake Wood and the Hilary Swank-starring retro stalking thriller The Resident. They've just scored a hit with their big screen adaptation of The Woman In Black, with star Daniel Radcliffe leading them to their biggest box office hit - it opened in the US to $21 million.
Exclusive Media and Hammer now confirm John Pogue (Quarantine 2: Terminal) is to write and direct supernatural thriller The Quiet Ones, based on a true story.
Inspired by true events, The Quiet Ones tells the story of an unorthodox professor who uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist. Based on the theory that paranormal activity is caused by human negative energy, the rogue scientists perform a series of tests on a young patient, pushing her to the edge of sanity. As frightening occurrences begin to take place with shocking and gruesome consequences, the group quickly realises they have triggered a force more terrifying and evil than they ever could have imagined.
Pogue said: "The Quiet Ones will take its audience on a thrilling ride of jumps, scares and eerie tingles which combined with set-pieces of unbearable tension will propel them through the shadowy chambers that imprison the tortured mind. It’s a dark and claustrophobic picture which will portray how human desire can become trapped in an insidious world of its own creation and how you should always be careful what you wish for."
Oakes added: "We can’t wait to showcase The Quiet Ones at EFM. It’s an incredibly chilling and sinister picture that we are proud to be a part of."
While cast members of the ensemble piece have yet to be announced, Bloody Disgusting are reporting that Michael Sheen has been offered the lead role - one that was once rumoured for Nicolas Cage when rumours circulated last year.
The Hollywood Reporter have picked up the news that Hammer and Exclusive Media have also secured the rights to Gaslight, an original screenplay by Ian Fried.
The story, which ended up on Hollywood’s Black List of the best unproduced scripts in 2011, is being compared to From Hell and The Silence of the Lambs. In Gaslight, Jack the Ripper - secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum - is called upon to help Scotland Yard solve a series of murders that share the iconic death brand: dual puncture wounds to the neck.
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