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Another Video Game Movie: This Time, it's Clock Tower
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The Mayhem Project, a small, genre-oriented production company that was founded last year, has hired a director for its first film. Back in October, Mayhem announced that its first two projects would be horror films: Sanctuary (an original story) and Clock Tower, which is based on a video game. Already in line to write the latter was Jake Wade Wall, the scribe who, among other things, penned the paint-by-numbers (and court-bound) remake of When a Stranger Calls, but the studio just recently hired a director. According to reports in the trades this week, Chilean horror prodigy Jorge Olguín has been signed to helm the film which, since he was discovered and is currently having a feature produced by the great Guillermo del Toro, is exciting news indeed for fans of the Clock Tower franchise.The movie, which "involves a young woman who receives a disturbing phone call from her estranged mother warning her not to come home," is apparently based on the best-selling third installment in the Clock Tower series, and is expected to go into production sometime this fall. Gamers can help me out here, but my understanding is that this game is much less about killing bad guys and much more about hiding and escaping from them than most scary games these days, so maybe it'll be something different, for once.
Del Toro Heeds The Call of the Sea
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With the recent arrival of its executive producers,
Chilean horror film The Call of the Sea sudden has a much
higher profile. The trades are reporting this morning that Mexican master of the creepy, Guillermo del Toro (I know I'm the
only one who feels this way, but I'm still totally obsessed with the low-key brilliance of Mimic), and Chilean actress Leonor Varela (who also stars) will both executive produce the movie,
the third effort from director Jorge Olguín.Written by Olguín, the film "is based on a legend about a ghost ship that navigates the cold waters of a mysterious Chilean island in search of the souls of local fisherman." According to The Hollywood Reporter, Varela will play a New England-based marine biologist (the movie will feature a mix of English and Spanish dialogue) who discovers that the story has a connection to her family and travels to the island in search of answers. Needless to say, at some point she will run into something unexpected and be really, really scared. Santiago Cabrera also stars in the film which, with a budget of about $2 million, will be one of the most expensive productions ever staged in Chile.
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