According to The Hollywood Reporter, Evil Dead and Spider-Man director, Sam Raimi, is attending be producing a supernatural horror called Refuge, which will be written by Tom De Ville supported a pitch by up-and-coming Brit director, Corin Hardy. The project back-number set up at Mandate, where Raimi’s own Ghost House Pictures has a deal.
Refuge evidently, “centers on a backwoods town terrorized by a Yeti, the fabulous creature native to the mountains of the Himalayas.” The film will be acquired by Jason Blum, Nathan Kahane and Steven Schneider. Blum’s Blumhouse outputs will finance a short film of Refuge ahead the full-length adaptation, which both Hardy and Ville will process as well. The idea is that Hardy can, “refine his vision,” just as the script is being processed. I’m also guessing the producers prefer to see if newbie movie director Hardy can actually direct a film to a tolerable degree before they give him a shot at the fully feature.
Hardy is a music TV manager who capitalize on* the highly stylized stop-motion style of life – /Film did a avid commercial director spotlight on him now, if you prefer to get a flavor for his work. Ville has only got a couple of credits to his name, including the TV series’ Urban Gothic and Lexx.
Raimi (like many music director* these days) has a lot currently on his plate, some as director and producer. On the addressing side of things, he’s the highly-anticipated Spider-Man 4 (and 5); the World of Warcraft computer game adaptation; and the LONG awaited Evil Dead 4 (please, Mr. Raimi, advance that!). As a producer, he’s Jack the Giant Killer (which Bryan Singer was recently annunciated to direct); the Paul Bettany flick, Priest at Screen Gems; and his IMDB resume lists a horror/thriller called Dibbuk Box, set for next year.
I approximate Refuge is just a different rung in the workload ladder of Mr. Sam Raimi…
I was beaming to see Raimi get back to his true horror addressing roots this year with the fantastically fun, Drag Me To Hell (probably the most amusing I have had in theaters this year so far), and so I receive him continuing that trend with Refuge, if only at the acquiring level. I don’t know if the Yeti aspirant the first creature I’d pick to center a horror flick around, just at any rate it aspirant a nice change of pace from all the automata and vampires plaguing our screens as late.
What do you think of Raimi producing Refuge? Does it sound like a fine idea for a horror to you?
Refuge doesn’t currently have a release date. Stay tuned.
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