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Platinum Dunes Next Film Is THE BUTCHERHOUSE CHRONICLES; Company Signs First Look Deal With Paramount
Collider —
... But according to Variety, Bay’s plans for the future of Platinum Dunes under Paramount is to step outside the remake box, as well as the horror genre, and start to explore other low-cost high-excitement endeavors, such as action films. The key, though, is to maintain their low-cost approach. With this in mind, they will get underway with “The Butcherhouse Chronicles,” a thriller they actually set at the studio last year, with Stephen Susco (”The Grudge”) scripting a premise the producers call “The Breakfast Club in a haunted ...
Platinum Dunes Signs With Paramount for ‘Butcherhouse Chronicles’
Screen Rant —
... Bay detractors out there who say he relies far too much on explosions and CGI. I’d be curious to see what he could do with a low-budget action movie. Think if Platinum Dunes moves into a budget-action arena and he were called upon to direct - could he pull off an entertaining movie if he were stripped of all the big-budget glitter?
No word on when Doomed Teens Die #46, er, The Butcherhouse Chronicles will be released.
Source: Variety via Collider
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