Camilla Belle, last seen in the hilarious Lionsgate culture-clash comedy From Prada to Nada, has been offered the role of Eve in Legendary Pictures’ big-screen ode to John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost.” While negotiations are still in progress, Deadline reports the deal is nearly sealed.
Diego Boneta (“90210”) is said to be circling the role of Adam. If signed, Belle and Boneta will join a cast that includes Bradley Cooper as Lucifer, Benjamin Walker as archangel Michael, Casey Affleck as archangel Gabriel, and Djimon Hounsou as Abdiel, the angel of death.
“Paradise Lost,” written by 17th century English poet John Milton, follows Lucifer’s banishment from Heaven, his three-day battle with God’s archangels, and his role in the fall of Adam and Eve (or so says the guy I cheated off in British Lit back in college. I got a C+).
Genre fans may recognize Belle from her starring roles in Screen Gems’ remake of When a Stranger Calls, Legendary’s Roland Emmerich-directed epic 10,000 B.C. and the little seen—but awesome—psych-thriller The Quiet (opposite Elisha Cuthbert). The 24-year-old stunner can also be seen in Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Summit’s sci-fi actioner Push.
Spanish actress Cristina Brondo stars in directors Adrian and Ramiro Garcia Bogliano’s upcoming Argentinean-set thriller Penumbra. The gorgeous 34-year-old will play a lawyer who rents out an inherited dingy apartment to a mysterious man during a solar eclipse that brings forth horrific events.
Says IFC Films president Jonathan Sehring:
We’ve been big fans of Adrian and Romero Garcia Bogliano since we saw Cold Sweat. We’re thrilled to be in business with them on Penumbra, which shows them only growing stronger as filmmakers.
Cristina Bondo gives an amazing performance as the Boglianos slowly and expertly turn up the dread and tension in this thrilling film.
IFC Midnight will distribute Penumbra in North America, Malaysia and Singapore.
The Bogliano’sCold Sweat (originally released as Sudor Frio) frightener follows a young man as he tracks down his missing girlfriend to an old house where brutal killers have holed themselves up with 25 cases of explosives. The film features international pop singer and Playboy model Camila Velasco in her acting debut.
Michelle Rodriguez is reprising her role as commando Rain Ocampo in director Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth installment in the insanely successful Sony Screen Gems franchise. Bloody Disgusting confirmed the news, but there’s no word on how Ocampo is being resurrected (she was infected and killed in the original RE film).
Rodriguez joins a cast that includes super hot Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine, Colin Salmon as James ‘One’ Shade, Boris Kodjoe as Luther West, Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker, and—of course—Milla Jovovich as resident ass-kicker Alice.
Resident Evil: Retribution is set to shoot in Japan, Russia, and Toronto. It arrives in theaters on Sept. 14, 2012.
Human Centipede mastermind Tom Six will see the premiere of his already controversial sequel The Human Centipede: Full Sequence tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse theater in Austin, Texas as part of the Fantastic Fest seventh annual kickoff.
Six recently spoke with The NY Times about the film, which was banned in the U.K. for its scenes of torture, humiliation, defecation, and forced barbed-wire sodomy. The always outrageous auteur explains to writer Dave Itzkoff why he likes pissing people off and embraces the term “torture porn.”
Says Six:
I actually like the term. I see porno films, of course, and I like them, I have no problem with that at all. And there have been so many horror films, and that’s all torture and misery. That’s the genre. I kind of like that they combine it. I think my film is a torture porn with European art sauce or something.
I like to make controversial films. I like that people talk about your work. I would hate it if I would make a film, and people wonder what to have for dinner when the film is over and not think about your film. I love it that people talk about it, hate it, can’t sleep over it.
Because if people say it’s a nice shot or it’s a nice story line, it’s so general. You can say that with almost any film you see. And things like, “this film should never have been made,” that’s exceptional.
The Human Centipede: First Sequence starred Ashlynn Yennie and Ashley C. Williams as American tourists abducted by an evil German scientist hell-bent on creating a human centipede by sewing them together mouth-to-anus.
Full Sequence is set around a fat, perverted miscreant named Martin (Laurence R. Harvey) who attempts to create a much bigger human centipede of his own after watching the Six’s original movie. Yenni returns for the sequel, but it’s not known yet if she’s playing herself or reprising her First Sequence role in some kind of fantasy scene.
A trailer for Open Road’s upcoming man-vs-wild thriller The Grey is now roaming the internet. Directed by Joe Carnahan (The A-Team) and toplined by Liam Neeson, the film follows a group of oil-rig workers attempting to survive the Alaskan wilderness after their plane crashes.
The movie looks like fun, but as someone who has spent his entire professional life sneaking shots of booze into his coffee mug, I must call shenanigans on the scene in which Neeson preps to fight off some wolves with broken miniature bottles of liquor wrapped around his fists. Those things are plastic.
The Grey costars Dermot Mulroney (Zodiac), Frank Grillo (“The Gates”), Dallas Roberts (Shadow People), Joe Anderson (The Ruins), James Badge Dale (World War Z), and Nonso Anozie (Conan the Barbarian). It opens in theaters on Jan. 27.
Canadian starlet Mia Kirshner has said I do to playing Stephen Moyer’s hot wife in director Darren Lynn Bousman’s upcoming Jersey Devil project The Barrens. According to Bloody Disgusting, who scored the scoop, Kirshner and Moyer are also being joined by Erik Knudsen (Scream 4) and J. Larose (Saw 3).
The Barrens follows a married couple (Kirshner, Moyer) and their kids as they set out to camp in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, home to the legendary cryptid known as the Jersey Devil. When Richard, the father, falls terribly ill, he begins to believe that his family is being stalked by the famed creature.
Kirshner, who most recently played Nina Dobrev’s vampire mom on The CW’s “Vampire Diaries,” can also be seen in the Ghost House sequel 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia (she played Elizabeth Short), and Miramax’s 1996 Crow sequel The Crow: City of Angels.
Erica Leerhsen is set to star in director Jon Keeyes’ (Fall Down Dead) soon-to-start shooting period frightener Phobia. The 35-year-old genre babe will play Dr. Lesley Parker, a 19th century psychiatrist treating a disturbed Romanian man who just might be a vampire (“Sopranos” with a vamp twist?).
Phobia costars Chase Jeffery (American Virgin), Matthew Tompkins (Mongolian Death Worm), Jonathan Brooks (The Playroom), Nicole Leigh (Karma Police), and Matt Moore (Premonition) as a young Sigmund Freud.
Leerhsen’s horror creds include Platinum Dunes’ stellar 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the supernatural thriller Lonely Joe and sequels Wrong Turn 2: Dead End and Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.
There are many horror sites and fans who revel in the genre’s blood and guts. For them, it’s all about the gore and the hatchet-wielding maniac making it all happen. But, here at Clatto, we like to focus on the more romantic side of horror, namely the busty Hollywood starlets and topless scream queens that either kill for vengeance and survival, or are murdered after seen showering, skinny-dipping, and/or having sex.
So imagine our joy when we discovered that writer/producer Steve Wolsh and director Jackson Sciarii have shot what promises to be a sexy, fun slasher that we can all watch with our penises loved ones. Entitled Know Models Were Harmed, the film follows newcomers LeeAnna Vamp, Serenity Risvik, Meghan Perkins and Jessica Benson as they desperately fight to stay alive while in various degrees of nakedness.
In making Know Models Were Harmed, we set out to make a darker and more intense slasher flick than had been made in recent years, without losing what makes horror fun, which in my mind is blood, guts, tits, and gore with the occasional comic relief.
Amen.
According to film’s website, Know Models Were Harmed is slated for an October 2012 release. That’s a bummer of a wait, but you can keep up with the movie (and check out more cool stills) by visiting their Facebook page.
“LOST” starlet Evangeline Lilly is going full-elf in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. The 31-year-old stunner recently spoke to SFX about playing Tauriel, a woodland elf not originally found in Tolkien’s novel.
She says:
With every film, you have to educate yourself on the material and it’s often things you don’t know a lot about. Right now I’m studying Elvish and having conversations with people about learning how to be an archer, a swordsperson and how to fight like an elf instead of a gritty convict [laughs].
The Hobbit will be split into two movies: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (release date: Dec. 14, 2012) and The Hobbit: There and Back Again (release date: Dec. 13, 2013). Production is currently underway in New Zealand.
Lilly, best known for playing fugitive Kate Austin on ABC’s “LOST,” will soon be seen in DreamWorks upcoming Hugh Jackman vehicle Real Steel, opening Oct. 7.
Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”) is no stranger to supernatural creatures, but his latest project will have him facing off against one of folklore’s most feared cryptids: The Jersey Devil. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw 2), The Barrens finds Moyer playing a family man who takes his wife and kids camping in the New Jersey Pine Barrens where the Jersey Devil is believed to live.
Bousman tells Variety:
I don’t want to turn it into a cheesy creature feature. It’s about the characters for me, and having watched Stephen for years on ‘True Blood,’ I have no doubt he’s the right leading man.
Bousman, who wrote the script (said to be in the vein of The Shinning), will produce The Barrens with The Genre Company and some other rich guy named John Eckert. Anchor Bay Entertainment will release the film next fall.
Moyer is, of course, best known for his portrayal of vampire Bill Compton on the Showtime series “True Blood.” The 41-year-old British actor has also starred in the apocalyptic actioner Priest, the supernatural thriller The Caller, the Al Pacino serial killer drama 88 Minutes, the home invasion frighteners Restraint (with a nude Teresa Palmer), and Open House (with wife and “True Blood” costar Anna Paquin).
