Isabelle Fuhrman, Ben Hardy, and Scoot McNairy are set to star within the dystopian creature function Die by Night time
Rod Blackhurst directed many quick movies and a few music movies earlier than he made his function directorial debut with the post-apocalyptic horror movie Right here Alone. Since then, he has labored on Amanda Knox and John Wayne Gacy documentaries, in addition to the Will Smith collection Welcome to Earth, and directed the crime thriller Blood for Mud. Now, Selection stories that he’s transferring forward with a dystopian creature function known as Die by Night time, and he has gathered a forged for the movie that features Isabelle Fuhrman of the Orphan franchise, Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody), and Scoot McNairy (Nightbitch).
Blackhurst is about to direct Die by Night time from a screenplay he wrote himself, with Selection noting that the script relies on a prequel screenplay he wrote with J. Hunter Richardson that’s known as The Chosen Few. So if Die by Night time is profitable, possibly we’ll see Blackhurst make the prequel The Chosen Few as effectively.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world the place lengthy stretches of night time plunge the world into chaos, the story sees creatures often called The Horde hunt at midnight. Runaway Lucia (Fuhrman) should discover her option to The Wall the place security awaits, whereas an injured however decided Barry (Hardy) guarantees to get them there. However The Horde aren’t the one menace on the market. The Clans — tribes of individuals whose survival and prosperity will depend on promoting and buying and selling people to realize power in numbers — additionally stand of their approach. On this propulsive thriller taking part in out over the course of 1 night time, the one option to survive the to see a brand new day is to belief one another and keep within the gentle till they make it to The Wall.
Witchcraft Movement Image Firm’s Noah Lang is producing the movie with Story within the Sky’s Ben Shields Catlin. Dave Bishop and George Hamilton of Protagonist Photos are govt producing.
Blackhurst supplied the next assertion: “This movie was born from the fears and anxieties that got here with changing into a father for the primary time, the overwhelming want to someway defend my daughter from the darkish forces that exist on this planet — from the damaging ideologies that gas the self-righteous, and of the unattainable decisions we should make within the face of chaos. We’re happy as punch to be partnering with Protagonist whose style and status precedes them; they make the sorts of movies I really like and instantly understood the duality of Die by Night time as each a mad style movie and a narrative about us and the instances we’re dwelling in however depicted in probably the most fantastical methods.“
Bishop added, “Die by Night promises to be a nail-biting, action-packed thriller with non-stop jump scares. Rod’s vision of a dark, dystopian, post-apocalyptic new world, combined with the terrifying hordes of creatures conceived by the industry’s top designers, will reach out and grab the audience not letting go until the credits roll.” Shields Catlin and Lang had this to say: “Die by Night time is the kind of movie we wished we might have seen at our neighborhood theatre after we had been children, begging our older brothers to sneak us in someway — visceral, hardcore, relentless, and scary. The type of movie that we are able to’t present our children simply but, however can’t wait till they’re sufficiently old that we are able to.“
The hordes of creatures we’ll be seeing within the movie are designed by Vincent Proce, whose earlier credit embody the Smile movies and It: Chapter 2.
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