Brandon Routh, Mena Suvari, and Malina Weissman are set to star within the Joseph Kahn-directed creature function Ick
Joseph Kahn primarily works as a music video director, having collaborated with the likes of Taylor Swift, Backstreet Boys, Rob Zombie, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, U2, Aerosmith, Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Eminem, Maroon 5, Shakira, and lots of extra – however he has additionally made a number of function movies through the years. He made his function debut with the 2004 motion comedy Torque, and has adopted that up with the comedy Bodied and the horror movie Detention – which we’ve lined for each Awfully Good and Best Horror Movie You Never Saw. Now, Variety stories that Kahn is making a creature function known as Ick, and Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) and Mena Suvari (American Beauty) have signed on to star within the movie.
Ick is coming our means from Interstellar Entertainment and producer Steven Schneider. The movie goals to “evoke the timeless creature features of the 1980s with an ambitious arsenal of scares and comedy.” Routh is taking over the position of Hank, a highschool science trainer who nonetheless pines for his childhood sweetheart, performed by Suvari. While discovering he could have a teenage daughter, Hank should grapple with a terrifying alien anomaly (the titular “Ick”) invading their small city.
The teenager who is perhaps Hank’s daughter is being performed by Malina Weissman of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events.
Kahn, who additionally wrote the screenplay with Sam Laskey and Dan Koontz, offered the next assertion: “Ick is a film that evokes primal fears concerning the world as we speak, and better of all, it introduces a novel mysterious monster. I’m thrilled that Interstellar has aligned to supply this contemporary creature function that’s difficult and escapist enjoyable.“
Interstellar’s Udaya Sharma added, “Embedded inside Ick are common themes of bravery, self-sacrifice and the everlasting human quest to face the unknown. Our objective is to not simply captivate our viewers however to additionally invoke deep introspection about confronting the unimaginable, whereas additionally being unimaginable pop leisure for all ages.“
The Variety article notes that the creature results in Ick can be dropped at the display screen by means of a mixture of old style prosthetics and cutting-edge visible results.
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