Werewolves Might Get Their Purge On in Jonathan Liebesman’s Wolf Night time

When you’ve ever wished a film about werewolves that additionally comes with some social commentary wrapped inside, your wants may presumably be sated within the close to future with an upcoming film.

Per Deadline, filmmaker Jonahtan Libeseman—greatest recognized for Battle: LA and the 2014 live-action Ninja Turtles movie—is drawing consideration along with his subsequent challenge, Wolf Night time. In line with the outlet, the screenplay from April Maguire and Will Honley is being explicitly billed as “District 9 by means of The Purge—however with werewolves.” Does that imply it’ll be a discovered footage film set in a metropolis populated by lycans? Will werewolves have free reign of a metropolis throughout a full moon, at which level anyone who isn’t one is totally screwed? Not a clue within the slightest, nevertheless it sounds fascinating and doubtlessly cool as hell.

Wolf Night time is being headed up by manufacturing firm Platinum Dunes, whose horror resume contains the precise Purge franchise, reboots of traditional horror flicks like Friday the thirteenth and Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath, and Paramount’s A Quiet Place sequence. Deadline says “a number of studios” have an interest on this movie, although no specific one was recognized as a possible frontrunner. With a premise like that, it may simply wind up at any studio, from Common to Paramount and even Warner Bros. (Hopefully not that final one.)

Both approach, right here’s hoping it will get snatched up—past its cool elevator pitch, it’d be good to have some extra mainstream werewolf motion pictures alongside all of the demons and vampires we get at a dependable clip. Apart from Common’s reboot of The Wolf Man, there’s presupposed to be Larry Fessenden’s Blackout, each of that are anticipated to launch later this yr.

[through Fangoria]

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