5 years in the past, it was introduced that Display screen Gems had employed What Retains You Alive author/director Colin Minihan to take the helm of a reboot of the 1998 slasher City Legend, the concept being to create “an iconic new slasher for the digital age in a world the place web city legends are born and transfer at a terrifying tempo.” Minihan’s reboot obtained far sufficient into growth that Sydney Chandler and Katherine McNamara have been in talks to star within the movie… however then, all of it fell aside. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has damaged the information that Display screen Gems goes to offer this City Legend reboot concept one other attempt, bringing in style common Gary Dauberman to supply the movie beneath his Coin Operated banner. Neal H. Moritz, who was a producer on the unique movie, is in talks to supply as properly, whereas Shanrah Wakefield has been employed to put in writing the screenplay.
Wakefield’s earlier credit embody Killer Assistant, Their Killer Affair, and Killer in Pink, so she has a lot earlier expertise with “killer” scripts. A couple of 12 months and a half in the past, Dauberman signed a first-look cope with Display screen Gems for function movies. He’s anticipated to “create tasks for himself whereas curating a slate that includes established and up-and-coming filmmakers.” His deal is a part of a plan to “rebuild Display screen Gems, Sony’s division centered on lower-budgeted fare, right into a extra productive label, with horror being a high focus.” Dauberman most lately wrote and produced the online game adaptation Till Daybreak, which Display screen Gems might be releasing this Friday.
Directed by Jamie Blanks from a screenplay by Silvio Horta, the unique City Legend has the next synopsis: A college is beset by a rash of ugly murders that resemble outdated city legends. When her buddy Michelle is killed by somebody hiding in her automobile, Natalie begins to note the sample. Her suspicions develop stronger when her personal roommate is strangled to dying. Quickly the quiet faculty campus is reworked into looking grounds for a maniac, and Natalie struggles to search out the killer and cease the bloodshed earlier than she turns into the subsequent sufferer. The movie stars Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, Michael Rosenbaum, Loretta Devine, Joshua Jackson, John Neville, Robert Englund, Danielle Harris, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Stephanie Anne Mills, Brad Dourif, and Julian Richings. A sequel, City Legends: Ultimate Minimize, adopted in 2000, and a 3rd movie, City Legends: Bloody Mary, went straight to video in 2005.
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