The Ballad Of Joel Schmacher’s Decline Adds A New Verse!
There was this great article, I think it was in an issue of Premiere, that I once read about the making (or un-making) of Wes Craven’s Cursed (one of the worst films I’ve seen, check out my review here!) in which two weeks into shooting, Craven thought it would work better as a comedy so kick started some re-writes, then realised he didn’t really like doing comedy (really? Scream 3 was hilarious… hilariously bad!) and started putting more horror in and… Well, we all know what then started happening.
The reason I bring this up is because this recent article from EmpireOnline brought up memories of that. Let’s go to it in it’s entirity:
The last time we checked, Joel Schumacher’s next movie, Inland Saints was called Fix, and was a gritty urban thriller about a gang leader who falls in love with the daughter of a detective tasked with bringing down the gang.
Well, not any more. Schumacher has brought on new writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift to retool Kurt Sutter’s script, and the result is a new title and a bold new direction.
For the movie is now an action horror set in a small-town desert wasteland. Plot details are scarce at the moment, but gangsters and drugs are still involved… just not in the way they once were.
It’s perhaps no surprise that the film has moved in this direction. After all, Shannon and Swift are the writers of the upcoming Friday The 13th remake, so horror comes naturally to them, while Schumacher – director of The Lost Boys, Flatliners and, most terrifying of all, Batman And Robin – has been gravitating back toward horror recently.
For example his next film, Creek, is an utterly barmy horror involving Nazis, creatures, and that guy with no neck from Prison Break. So Inland Saints will continue his new scary streak.
Paramount is funding the project, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing, along with Eli Holzman.
Thriller to action thriller to action horror? Hmm… Schumacher doesn’t have the strongest ‘current’ directorial foundations. And there are rumours that Creek could be heading straight to DVD, with its distributors seemingly unable to stump up the enthusiasm to market it for the big screen.
Either way, the days of Schumacher making a movie that went on my ‘radar’ ended with Falling Down.
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2 Responses to “The Ballad Of Joel Schmacher’s Decline Adds A New Verse!”
Yes, Joel Shitmaker is just that: a shit maker. But I love Phantom of the Opera with no shame.
Really? I haven’t seen it but by all accounts I heard he’d ****ed that up?
I do adore Emmy Rossum though - not enough to sit through DRAGONBALL mind you!
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