English-language chiller from Fruit Chan
Henry Thomas (pictured), Kevin Corrigan Lothaire Bluteau, Carmen Chaplin and Reshad Strik have joined Distant Horizon’s English-language remake of Japanese chiller Don’t Look Up (aka Joyuu-Rei).
According to Variety, Hong Kong’s Fruit Chan will direct the pic, which lenses in Los Angeles beginning April 14. Production had previously been set for Romania.
Set in an abandoned movie studio, thefilm charts the unraveling sanity of a director and his crew when spirits from another era invade the film stock of the modern production.
Movie is a Distant Horizon production with Japanese companies Action 5 and Hakuhodo. Distant Horizon’s Anant Singh and Brian Cox will produce, along with Yoko Asakura of Action 5. Richard Jeffery and Philip Lee are executive producers.
Source: Variety
