The Green Knight
David Lowery’s dark fantasy feature “The Green Knight” at A24 as been handed an R rating, though maybe not for the reason you’d expect. Inspired by Arthurian legend, Dev Patel plays Sir Gawain who embarks on a quest in search of the Green Knight – dealing with ghosts, giants and thieves along the way.
The MPAA has given the film its rating for “violence, some sexuality, and graphic nudity”. A24 has yet to reveal when they intend to release the film. [Source: Collider]
Demigod
Rachel Nichols (“The Man in the High Castle,” “Titans”) is set to star in “The Dinner Party” director Miles Doleac’s new horror film “Demigod” which will shoot in December in Mississippi. Nichols will play Robin, who travels with her husband Leo (Yohance Myles) to Germany’s Black Forest upon the death of her huntsman grandfather.
Soon after arriving at his secluded cabin, Robin realizes the inheritance left her is far more macabre than she had bargained for. She finds herself entrenched in an ancient hunting ritual that will force her to reckon with her family’s past and her own will to overcome the monstrous obstacles in her path. Jeremy London, Sherri Eakin and Lindsay Anne Williams co-star. [Source: Deadline]
One Way
Kevin Bacon will join Travis Fimmel and Machine Gun Kelly in Andrew Baird’s new action-thriller “One Way” which begins filming in February in Los Angeles and Tulsa. Ben Conway penned the script.
Bacon will portray the estranged father of Kelly’s character, who goes on the run with a bag full of cash after a robbery of his former crime boss goes wrong. With a potentially fatal wound, he slips onto a bus headed into the unrelenting California desert. After a call for help, the father betrays him by notifying the crime boss of his location. [Source: Variety]
The Rig
Amazon has greenlit the six-part supernatural thriller series “The Rig” with John Strickland (“Line Of Duty,” “Bodyguard”) set to direct from a script by David Macpherson. Shooting will take place next year in Edinburgh. The story is set onboard the Kishorn Bravo oil rig, stationed off the Scottish coast in the dangerous waters of the North Sea.
When the crew is due to return to the mainland, a mysterious and all-enveloping fog rolls through and they find themselves cut off from all communication with the shore and the outside world. As they endeavor to discover what’s driving this force, bonds are broken, allegiances formed and generational fault lines exposed. [Source: Deadline]
Red Notice
Filming has wrapped on Netflix’s big-budget heist thriller “Red Notice” starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. Reynolds has released a series of behind-the-scenes photos from the project in which Johnson plays an Interpol agent tracking down Gadot’s art thief – along the way he has to deal with Reynolds’ con artist. The film is due to hit the service sometime next year.
