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Director Rob Schmidt Adapting Stephen King's 'Insomnia'
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Instead of relishing the sun, a whole bunch of people headed to Fangoria's "Weekend of Horrors" to ring in July at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands in Secaucus, New Jersey. One attendee called Dread Central with this little bit of news: Stephen King's Insomnia will hit the big screen, helmed by Rob Schmidt. The director says he is taking on the job for the super-passionate reason: "mainly because King was such a big fan of Wrong Turn." This project is just the latest in the seemingly unending King adaptations in the works -- from his novella The Mist, to the longer tale of Black House.Insomnia deals with Ralph Roberts -- a man struggling with insomnia since his wife died. He keeps waking up earlier and sleeping less. He takes walks in this time and starts to notice some weird things going on in his town of Derry. "He sees colored ribbons streaming from people's heads. He witnesses two strange little men wandering the city under cover of night. He begins to suspect that these visions are something more than hallucinations brought about by sleep deprivation." Along with his friend, a widow named Lois, they get "enmeshed in events of cosmic significance." This should be an interesting endeavor as the book is pretty huge, but Schmidt says that he'll tackle the size by focusing on the strange town itself. Furthermore, since both Ralph and Lois start off older in the book and get younger, the director will cast two thirty-somethings for the roles, and have Stan Winston age and de-age them. I can't help but wonder if the director will tap Eliza Dushku yet again. While she is a little young yet -- mid-twenties -- she not only starred in Wrong Turn, but also in Schmidt's upcoming flick The Alphabet Killer, which I posted about in December.
Dushku Learns the Alphabet
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After spending years fighting evil, you finally face the First Evil, defeat him, send your town into an abyss, and then what? For one slayer, it's putting aside your evil-vanquishing roots in order to face some creepy Asian children. For the other chosen one, it's a little bit of everything. Eliza Dushku jumped from her time as Faith to a time-bending med student on TV, and now to a whole mess of films with a little laughter, a little screaming and a little psychosis -- the last of which comes from the upcoming thriller, The Alphabet Killer.Rob Schmidt, who last headed the feature Wrong Turn, will direct the murder mystery that is based on the real-life Alphabet Murders from Rochester, NY in the seventies. According to the official site, which is already online, the movie will follow Megan, a police investigator played by Dushku, who is up against her fiancé for head of the department. When a girl is raped and murdered and she can't solve it, her reality slips, she's institutionalized, and he takes the job. When back in the department, but working as a records clerk, she uses her pull to ride along with her ex-fiancé when more murders are committed. Obviously, this brings up old wounds and her mental health begins to slip.
The case remains unsolved, so Schmidt has some options on his plate for the ending. He can leave the case unsolved as it is, and focus on Megan and her psyche, or take The Black Dahlia route and come up with a fictional killer and ending. What would you rather have as the moviegoer? The slick wrap-up with no factual basis, or the never-resolved ending that's true to life?
[via JoBlo/ArrowInTheHead]
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