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The Last Voyage of Demeter
Release Date: TBA
Genres: Historical, Horror
Production Phase: Development Hell
Production Company: Phoenix Pictures
Who's Making It: Neil Marshall (Director), Bragi Schut Jr. (Screenwriter), Mike Medavoy (Producer), Arnie Messer (Producer), Brad Fischer (Producer)
Premise: An unseen, evil presence stalks the crew of the Demeter as they sail the storm-tossed seas between Europe to England. Based on material from Bram Stoker's Dracula.... More »
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday) is the latest director to attach himself to the Demeter movie project. Whether this development will be the grease that moves the project from development hell to production, well...
- The Hollywood Reporter. Comment on this Scoop (0)Sunday, February 13, 2011
David Slade is in talks to direct the film. Hopefully his background for making vampire movies, such as the third Twilight movie Eclipse as well as 30 Days of Night, will be what this project needs to push it into active production.
Ben Kingsley and Noomi Rapace are still attached to star in the movie.
- Variety. Comment on this Scoop (0)Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Surfing high on her high visibility gained from playing the anti-social Lisbeth Salander in the Millennium series of movies (of which The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was the first chapter), Noomi Rapace is in talks to star in The Last Voyage of Demeter. If she signs and the movie moves forward Rapace would play a female stowaway onboard the ill-fated vessel.
Also in talks to star in the film is Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley (Prince of Persia, Ghandi).
- The Los Angeles Times. Comment on this Scoop (0)Sunday, May 3, 2009
Friday the 13th remake director Marcus Nispel is in talks to helm The Last Voyage of Demeter, the offshoot of Bram Stoker's Dracula tale penned by Bragi Schut Jr. Robert Schwentke (Flightplan, The Time Traveler's Wife) was formerly attached to direct.
Schut's script was inspired by the section of Stoker's book which briefly chronicled the arrival of a deserted merchant vessel at the docks of Whitby. The Demeter was the ship that brought Dracula to England and during the vessel's ill-fated voyage its crew were picked off one-by-one by the count. Only the body of the Demeter captain was found by the dockside workers at Whitby, tied to the ship's steering wheel. Schut's screenplay expands on the final voyage of the ship as they are stalked by the vampire. [Full story]
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