Caffeinated Clint
Movie god Russell Crowe will team with ‘90s horror wordsmith Kevin Williamson (“Scream”, “I Know What You Did Last Summer”) for a flick that sees the Oscar winning actor play a Robert Englund-like genre movie star.
Crowe, whose head-turning performance on TVs “The Loudest Voice” recently seems to have reminded Hollywood that he’s still a force to be reckoned with, plays a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a horror film. His estranged daughter wonders if he’s slipping back into his past addictions or if there’s something more sinister at play.
The untitled flick, set up at Williamson’s old stomping ground, Miramax, will be written and co-directed by M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller, the writers of 2015’s “The Final Girls”. If the name “Joshua John Miller” rings a bell for ‘80s movie fans, it’s because he played the boy vampire in Bill Paxton classic “Near Dark” (1987).
Williamson, who has spent the better part of the decade working in TV (“Scream : The Series”, “The Following”, “The Vampire Diaries”), produces with Ben Fast and Bill Block. He has been working on a remake of ‘80s horror flick “The Bedroom Window”.
Crowe is relatively new to the genre, though he did play a part in the forgettable “Mummy” reboot a couple of years back and years before, played the villain in Denzel Washington flick “Virtuosity” (not long after he boarded the boat from New Zealand.)
