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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jan 26, 2017 22:09:57 GMT -6
variety.com/2017/film/news/netflix-alaskan-thriller-hold-the-dark-green-room-1201971151/ Netflix to Distribute Thriller ‘Hold the Dark’ With ‘Green Room’ Director Netflix has come on board to handle distribution of Alaska-set thriller “Hold the Dark,” to be directed by Jeremy Saulnier (“Green Room”). The project was first unveiled in 2015 with A24 and Saulnier joining forces on “Hold the Dark” after teaming on “Green Room.” Shooting will begin Feb. 27 in Alberta, Canada. Saulnier is directing from a script by longtime creative partner Macon Blair. Producers are Eva Maria Daniels of VisionChaos Productions and Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder of Addictive Pictures. Actors have yet to be attached to the project. The story, based on the 2014 novel by William Giraldi, centers on a young boy in a remote Alaskan village being killed by a rogue wolf. A wildlife naturalist is summoned from the mainland to assess the situation only to become involved in a dangerous triangle with the boy’s grieving mother and unstable father, sending them all on a violent odyssey to the edge of their own humanity. Netflix said the project is a continuation of its global film strategy of working directly with independent filmmakers and producers. “Green Room” starred the late Anton Yelchin, along with Imogen Poots and Patrick Stewart in a story of a punk band under attack by neo-Nazis after witnessing a murder at a remote club. “Green Room” premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and grossed $3.2 million in limited release for A24 last year. Saulnier also directed 2013’s “Blue Ruin.”
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Feb 10, 2017 17:25:50 GMT -6
www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/jeffrey-wright-alexander-skarsgard-james-badge-dale-star-netflix-thriller-hold-dark-9745Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgard, James Badge Dale to Star in Netflix Thriller 'Hold the Dark' Riley Keough and James Bloor are also cast in Jeremy Saulnier's follow-up to his acclaimed "Green Room." Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgard and James Badge Dale will star in Hold the Dark, Netflix’s adventure thriller from director Jeremy Saulnier. Riley Keough and James Bloor are also cast in the project, which is Saulnier’s follow-up to his acclaimed Anton Yelchin thriller Green Room. Dark adapts the book by William Giraldi and is set in a remote Alaskan wilderness in which wolves have taken and killed children. A wolf expert biologist is called in to investigate but finds himself in between in between a secret-harboring mother, who disappears, and her husband, who goes on a maniacal spree when he returns from Iraq and learns of his son’s death. White cold snow runs red with hot blood. Wright will play the biologist caught up in the spree while Badge Dale is a detective who wants to catch the husband, to be played by Skarsgard. Keough will play the mother and Bloor a creepy drifter. The movie is looking at shooting in Alberta, Canada in March. Macon Blair wrote the script. Producing are Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder, as well as Eva Maria Daniels, Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp CAA-repped Wright is one of the stars of HBO’s Westworld and appeared in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay movies. Skarsgard last year starred as Tarzan in The Legend of Tarzan and appears opposite Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon in HBO’s Big Little Lies. He is repped by CAA and Hansen Jacobson. Badge Dale was part of Michael Bay’s 13 Hours and recently wrapped The Empty Man, Fox’s adaptation of a Boom! comic. He is repped by CAA and MJ Management. Keough, who appeared in Mad Max: Fury Road, has two films recently wrapped: noir thriller Under the Silver Moon by It Follows filmmaker David Robert Mitchell, and Logan Lucky from Steven Soderbergh. She is repped by WME. Bloor, repped by CAA and Grandview, is a newcomer who will not only be seen in Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot Leatherface but also in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.
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