Brian Reitzell, music supervisor on three Sofia Coppola films who also boasts assorted music credits on the likes of “30 Days of Night,” “Stranger Than Fiction” and “The Brothers Bloom,” is going to score the Amanda Seyfried-starring horror/drama “Red Riding Hood” for director Catherine Hardwicke. He will also write and produce the film’s original songs and serve as Music Supervisor here too. The film is due in theaters on March 11, 2011.
Screenwriter Mark Protosevich (“Thor,” “I Am Legend,” “Poseidon,”) is hoping to make a move behind the camera and direct “Freakshow,” an adaptation he will also write of the comic book by David Server and Jackson Lanzing. The story details five young mutants in a world whose only superhero has just been killed, deciding whether to use their new powers for good or the other thing. “In terms of experiencing moments of creative inspiration,” raves Protosevich, “reading ‘Freakshow’ was like being struck by lightning.”
Caleb Deschanel, cinematographer of “National Treasure,” ”The Right Stuff,” “The Spiderwick Chronicles” and “My Sister’s Keeper” among many other credits (and also 50% of the gene pool responsible for not-particularly-ugly actress sisters Zooey and Emily), is switching hats to direct the stage play “Burning in China.” An account of playwright Gary Moore’s visit to the country for a teaching job at a Shanghai University which coincided with events that led up to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the play will apparently use footage shot by Deschanel in China around that period. It will run in August in New York as part of the NY International Fringe Festival.
Im Sang-Soo’s erotic thriller (man, we need a new name for that genre without the skeevy Zalman King associations) “The Housemaid” has just found a North American distributor in IFC Films. The movie, itself a remake of Kim Ki-youn’s identically-titled 1960 batshit classic (which boasts a restoration presented by none other than Martin Scorsese; we have a review pending from its screening at Fantasia) is about the (presumably erotic) intrigue that ensues when a new maid comes to work for a wealthy family. More details and a good looking trailer here. The film premiered In Competition in Cannes and IFC will presumably send it on the fall festival circuit prior to a wider release in early 2011.
