Paul Bettany (“The Da Vinci Code”) will star in “Legion” from director Scott Stewart. Stewart co-wrote the script with Peter Schink (“Gotham Cafe”).
“Legion” is an action/horror film that follows what happens after God, who has lost faith with humanity, sends out his legion angels to destroy the entire human race. Humankind has one salvation, a group of holed-up misfits who have the archangel Michael (Bettany) as their benefactor.
“Legion” is set for release sometime in 2009.
Actor Sam Worthington, who will soon be seen as the male lead in James Cameron’s highly anticipated film “Avatar,” has been signed to star in the next big screen Terminator flick titled “Teminator Salvation,” which will be directed by McG.
Worthington will star as a Marcus, a character that is pivotal part of the next Terminator trilogy of films. The first of which will open after Skynet has destroyed most of humanity through its nuclear devastation of the planet. John Connor (Christian Bale) rises from the ashes with a handful of rebels to pose the greatest threat to the machine’s desire to finish off the rest of humankind scattered across the globe.
Wes Craven has been tapped by Rogue Pictures and Focus Features to direct a new horror film called “25/8.” Craven has also penned the script for the feature film, his first since writing “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare” in 1994. Production on “25/8” is set to start sometime this April.
“25/8” will center on the return of a serial killer after he supposedly died 15 years earlier.
“It’s more a thriller than a slasher film,” stated Craven to Daily Variety. “[It] revolves around a young kid with a very dark past involving his family and his father.”
Rogue Pictures has also decided to remake an George Romero classic horror flick titled “Crazies,” about a small Pennsylvania community who become “crazy” after a plane crash dumps some of its biological material cargo into the town’s water supply.
Craven, who created the “Nightmare on Elm Street” franchise is not connected to the new remake planned for next year. New Line and Michael Bay will now direct the next line of Freddy films.
“My baby has fallen into the hands of others,” Craven said. “What I can say but wish them luck.”
