Argentinian filmmaker Alejandro Brugués is attached to direct the Netflix horror film The Last Will and Testament of Charles Abernathy. It’s based on Chris Lamont and Joe Russo’s original screenplay that was featured on the 2018 BloodList and sold to the streamer.
Paul Schiff, who collaborated with Netflix on the Sam Worthington-starring thriller Fractured, is producing the pic for Paul Schiff Productions.
The story follows billionaire Charles Abernathy who, on the eve of his 75th birthday, invites his four estranged children back home out of fear that tonight someone – or something – is coming to kill him. To ensure his family will help protect him from whatever’s coming, Abernathy puts each of their inheritances on the line – they’ll get nothing if he’s found dead by dawn.
Dan Clarke will serve as executive producer.
Brugués directed the 2012 movie Juan of the Dead; 2018’s Nightmare Cinema, on which...
Paul Schiff, who collaborated with Netflix on the Sam Worthington-starring thriller Fractured, is producing the pic for Paul Schiff Productions.
The story follows billionaire Charles Abernathy who, on the eve of his 75th birthday, invites his four estranged children back home out of fear that tonight someone – or something – is coming to kill him. To ensure his family will help protect him from whatever’s coming, Abernathy puts each of their inheritances on the line – they’ll get nothing if he’s found dead by dawn.
Dan Clarke will serve as executive producer.
Brugués directed the 2012 movie Juan of the Dead; 2018’s Nightmare Cinema, on which...
- 4/21/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Bruce Willis, Jesse Metcalfe, Eva Marie, Lala Kent, Sergio Rizzuto, Texas Battle, Swen Temmel, Jon Galanis, Tyler Jon Olson | Written by Joe Russo, Chris Lamont | Directed by Matt Eskandari
We all know that Bruce Willis spends most of his acting days appearing in cash-grab cameos in an interminable number of direct to market films; films that pop up on supermarket shelves with Willis’ face front and centre as if he’s the star. Hard Kill is yet another example of this stage in Willis’ oeuvre.
Hard Kill is also yet another Emmett/Furla production, a company who seem to be following the Pm Entertainment model of churning out action movie after action movie, with actors who are either long-term mid-carders or, like Willis, are in the twilight of their career. I’m not complaining. There was, for quite some time, a distinct lack of mid-budget original action movie fare made in the US.
We all know that Bruce Willis spends most of his acting days appearing in cash-grab cameos in an interminable number of direct to market films; films that pop up on supermarket shelves with Willis’ face front and centre as if he’s the star. Hard Kill is yet another example of this stage in Willis’ oeuvre.
Hard Kill is also yet another Emmett/Furla production, a company who seem to be following the Pm Entertainment model of churning out action movie after action movie, with actors who are either long-term mid-carders or, like Willis, are in the twilight of their career. I’m not complaining. There was, for quite some time, a distinct lack of mid-budget original action movie fare made in the US.
- 1/15/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Annie Heise, Tristan Thomas, Brytnee Ratledge, Trevor Donovan, Gianna Gallegos Brady Bauer, Esodie Geiger, Kurt Kubicek, Micah McNeil Elizabeth Saydah, Luke Valley | Written by Chris Lamont, Joe Russo | Directed by Joe Russo
Now I wouldn’t typically review a Lifetime movie but… but… this particular film – The Au Pair Nightmare – is the feature debut of Joe Russo, the producer of the film Nightmare Cinema and a director whose short films have appeared on the likes of Crypt TV and Alter, as well as having his horror short Take-Out featured in the horror anthology Dark Deadly & Dreadful.
So we have a director who has mainly focused on the horror genre directing a film about an au pair. So far so huh? But then comes the films synopsis: “Trying to leave behind the memories of her fiancé, Taylor becomes an au pair for an out-of-state couple and their 8-year old daughter...
Now I wouldn’t typically review a Lifetime movie but… but… this particular film – The Au Pair Nightmare – is the feature debut of Joe Russo, the producer of the film Nightmare Cinema and a director whose short films have appeared on the likes of Crypt TV and Alter, as well as having his horror short Take-Out featured in the horror anthology Dark Deadly & Dreadful.
So we have a director who has mainly focused on the horror genre directing a film about an au pair. So far so huh? But then comes the films synopsis: “Trying to leave behind the memories of her fiancé, Taylor becomes an au pair for an out-of-state couple and their 8-year old daughter...
- 5/27/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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