Posted on September 28th, 2006 at 9:11 am by Editor
Wes Craven has made a deal with Rogue Pictures to write and direct a new horror project, says Variety. He’s also formed Midnight Pictures, a Rogue-based company that will make horror flicks with budgets under $15 million. Craven has hired Marianne Maddalena, who’s produced many of Craven’s films, to run Midnight Pictures. Plans call for the duo to produce Midnight Pictures projects and to also make films separately, with Maddalena developing her own slate.
“It is rooted in the supernatural with a 16-year old central character, but it’s more ‘Sixth Sense’ than a slasher film,” Craven said about his new film. “It’s appalling to me that you have to go back to 1994 to find an original that I wrote and directed, so this is very important to me.” New project will be released by Rogue, but not under Midnight Pictures. Craven hopes to shoot next spring. The first film under the Midnight Pictures banner will be the remake of his 1972 debut The Last House on the Left, which Rogue co-presidents Andrew Karpen and Rona bought last month.
Rogue, the genre division of Universal-based Focus Features, is also eyeing Craven-directed titles Shocker and People Under the Stairs for possible remakes Craven would oversee with the new company. Both films are Universal-owned library titles. Craven’s genre landmarks include the “Scream” trilogy and “Nightmare on Elm Street” series.
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