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Dead of Night - Friday The 13th - 12-10-2009
[SIZE="7"]Dead of Night[/SIZE]
No official plot yet, but the novels follows the adventures of a supernatural investigator named Dylan Dog.
RELEASE DATE
2010
CURRENT STATUS
Post-Production
LANGUAGE
English
PRODUCED BY
Hyde Park Films
Platinum Studios
DIRECTED BY
Kevin Munroe
WRITTEN BY
Thomas Dean Donnelly
Joshua Oppenheimer
STARRING
Brandon Routh
Sam Huntington
Taye Diggs
Anita Briem
Peter Stormare
Kurt Angle
- Filmed in New Orleans.
- Peter Stormare will be play a werewolf named "Gabriel."
- Kurt Angle will play a werewolf named "Wolfgang."
- Anita Briem plays "Elizabeth" one of Brandon Routh's love interests.
- Taye Diggs plays "Vargas", the head of a vampire family.
- Sam Huntington (Superman Returns, Fanboys) plays Dylan's sidekick "Marcus".
- Director Kevin Munroe hopes to use as little CGI as possible, and stick mostly with practical effects.
- Budgeted at $20-million.
- Actors Brandon Routh and Sam Huntington both starred together in Superman Returns.
- Due to right's issues the original sidekick from the Italian comic, Groucho Marx, (much like the Dark Horse publication) will not be used in this feature film adaptation.
- It's said that Dylan will encounter zombies, vampires, and werewolves.
- The film will reportedly not follow any of the previous cases from the novel, and will take place in New York City.
- Scripted by Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly.
- Brandon Routh (Superman) plays Dylan Dog.
- You may remember director Kevin Munroe from his work with the new TMNT CGI film.
- David R. Ellis (Snakes on a Plane) was attached the direct when the project was first announced.
- Based on the popular Italian graphic novel series "Dylan Dog" by Tiziano Sclavi.