EXCLUSIVE: Famous style filmmaking duo The Spierig Brothers, recognized for motion pictures together with Daybreakers, Jigsaw, Winchester and the upcoming Fall 2, are set to direct Headless, a up to date re-imagining of the Headless Horseman mythology.
With nods to Mad Max and The Terminator, the synopsis reads: “A rudderless hitchhiker and a pushed lady avenging her household’s dying should cease a motorcycle-riding semi-immortal ghoul that feeds off the carnage it causes on desert highways by decapitating it and getting its head far sufficient away, lengthy sufficient, from its relentlessly pursuant still-living physique.”
Altitude has come aboard for worldwide gross sales and will probably be presenting the undertaking to consumers on the Cannes Croisette this week. Rialto has acquired distribution rights to the movie for Australia and New Zealand.
Written by Shane Armstrong (The Contents) and S.P. Krause (The Contents) the movie will probably be produced by trade vet Chris Brown (Daybreakers) for his Image in Paradise, Martin Metz (Mandy) for Rosewood Photos and Diana Le Dean (Sting) and developed with assist from Display screen Queensland.
Cameras and heads are as a result of roll in Australia later within the 12 months.
The brothers’ final movie, 2018 horror Winchester with Helen Mirren, made $44M international off a sub 5 million greenback price range.
