#BloodList 2015 is upon us… These are the 13 most liked, unproduced dark genre screenplays of the year, as well as the 6 most liked, unproduced dark genre pilots according to our friends at BloodList.com.
Circle of Confusion
Shake it Up! and The DUFF star Bella Thorne is the final piece of Mcg’s casting puzzle for his upcoming horror-comedy The Babysitter which is set to being shooting within a month.
Logline: After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, a crew of six must navigate two miles in the dangerous unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it safety.
Brian Duffield’s spec Underwater, which was bought by Chernin, has been set up at 20th Century Fox, paving the way for the aquatic thriller to propel through the development process.
Logline: The making of The Godfather devolves into Adaptation.
With the help of a highly advanced 3D printer that generates alternate realities, a young woman must relive a serial killer’s life 10 minutes at a time to save her fiancé. It is SOURCE CODE meets SE7EN.
A security guard protects a woman who is being targeted by a gang for participating as a trial witness.
In a deal that will bring together Chinese media groups, a veteran Batman producer and the UN, the 1960s comic series T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents is being adapted into a film.
A group of United Nations agents are enhanced with high-tech equipment so that they can use their new superpowers to help fight international threats in the name of peace.
Marvel is looking to bring in Joe Robert Cole to write Black Panther. The film has set Chadwick Boseman as the titular character from fictional African nation Wakanda, who will first be seen in Captain America: Civil War. Cole previously wrote and directed 2011’s Amber Lake.
Kept under wraps.
Trash Fire deals with the fear of having to move back home again. It is a deeply, darkly comedic take on the traditional psychological horror film.
Kept under wraps, but pitched as a heist with elements of fantasy.
Kept under wraps, but pitched as a heist with elements of fantasy.
The young actress continues her streak of choice roles over the last few years by nabbing the part of Francis O’Connor’s daughter in the upcoming The Conjuring sequel that will follow the story of the Enfield Poltergeist.
Actor Simon McBurney has joined The Conjuring 2. The cast already includes Francis O’Connor, Vera Farmiga, and Patrick Wilson, with the latter two reprising their roles as Lorraine and Ed Warren.
O’Connor joins Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga for her second Blumhouse film.
McG has decided that he needs to preserve his vision for Brain Duffield‘s script, so he will helm the project.
Summer campers are terrorized by the urban legend killer, Cropsey.
Based on a centuries-old legend, Cropsey is set for a comedic, Goonies-style reboot with Marshall and DreamWorks.
A washed-up best of the best former ATF agent and an unlikely partner get drawn into the hunt for a sophisticated heist crew staging high-end robberies amidst spectacular infernos.
A washed-up best of the best former ATF agent and an unlikely partner get drawn into the hunt for a sophisticated heist crew staging high-end robberies amidst spectacular infernos.
The accomplished actor has been selected for a possibly pivotal role in the third Marvel series from Netflix.
A round-up of this week’s pilot and series TV casting and sales!
The drama centers on a widowed ranch owner who works with ex-convicts to rehabilitate wild horses, for newly formed production shingle ESX Entertainment.
Sean Teale Nabs his first lead in the new Syfy pilot set in a dystopian future where the one percent of the one percenters rule.
Logline: Follows Santa’s forgotten helper and giver of coal to naughty children who lost his job at the North Pole due to modern parents spoiling their children. To prove that he is still needed, he travels to NYC to replace Christmas with Krampus Day.
Follows the exploits of master thief Vincenzo Pipino, who scaled multiple stories and clay rooftops to swipe precious and refined art, clothing, and jewelry in 1990’s Italy.
The pick-up marks one of the first under Fox’s deal, which gives the studio first-look on any stories published by the online venture, and those written by founders Davis and Joshuah Bearman. The Epic Magazine article centers on Italian gentleman thief Vincenzo Pipino.
In order to make ends meet after his mother’s death, a young street magician turns to drug dealing in the Los Angeles party scene. When he gets into trouble with his supplier, his sister is kidnapped and he is forced to rely on both his sleight of hand and brilliant mind to save her.
