You may know Myriad Pictures as the studio that made the classic and critically acclaimed Jeepers Creepers 2... Ugh! Well Myriad Pictures, and Studio 407 Comics formed a partnership a while back, and announced that they'll be producing a live action feature film together based off of the four part miniseries titled Hybrid by Studio 407. Now, I have never really got into this series myself, but it has mutant creatures, and I'm sure deserving people gettting brutally slaughtered... so it can't be all that bad. Plus it has received very good reviews, and a supposed collection of the four issues will be avaliable Febuary 25th. Miriad recently announced the schematics of their deal, and how this motion picture will find it's way to a theatre near you.
The film will be Directed by Ernie Barbarash whom directed Cube Zero, which I actually enjoyed, but not as much as the first Cube. This film is yet to be cast but is already written by Peter Kwong and is expected to release in mid 2009.
The story is much like the comic books, and revolves around mutant creatures devouring human flesh. Sweet! Four college friends(cliche) are on schooner escaping from the world, and on vacation alone, probably without a weapon(cliche). Everything is going smooth until they bump into an abandoned fishing trawler(cliche). The trawler is not as abandoned as they think when they discover a creepy girl waving them down(cliche), and they decide to come over and help(cliche). As I'm sure, many cliches later they discover a nest of mutant creatures that float around in the ocean and technically fish for people to eat(...cliche?).
Myriad Pictures Studio is run by film producer Alex Leung.
Leung told ShockTillYouDrop.com, “We came out of Asia as an intellectual property/multi-media company that was started in Bangkok. From there we opened a small office there with four people and when I came back to Los Angeles, we started an office here and we got started with Myriad with the idea to not only use our comic books but to also develop genre material with them because they were very successful with Jeepers Creepers 2. They wanted to find a way to do more of those kinds of films. It just made sense because it's what the market demands right now. A lot of their films they put together through foreign sales and pre-sales, and obviously a genre that crosses over really well is horror. We wanted to do more of these and we could provide a lot of that material, but we could also produce those films because we have experience in that field as well."
“The movie, if we're lucky, will be out by the end of 2009. It's skewing towards a straight horror title with it very much in the vein of the classic Creepy and Eerie comics. It's a modern day Creature from the Black Lagoon with elements of Jaws. It's very a much an old school creature feature but updated with an environmental angle, very much like The Host was. It's a very subtle thing that's set up in the beginning, then touched on lightly throughout.”
He praised Kwong scriptwriting abilities, making him perfect to take their concept for Hybrid and turn it into a comic to interest Myriad. “But what we went out with was a first draft and it's rare that you can hook a studio right away just on the first draft. To be honest we did not expect Hybrid to happen. Basically, we told our investors not to expect any films in the first two or three years. So, we're very fortunate to have two films going. Hybrid, as a matter of fact, is our second film.”
Myriad and Studio 407 recently collaborated on the film Hunter, in which I never saw...
I hope this movie turns out well, because I do love a good bloody horror film. Increase the blood and gore, cut out the cheesy "before I save the day" lines, and make the actors only act when they are screaming and running and don't let them exchange more than one minute of dialouge a piece, and it might be good. Hey, I loved The Decent, so please make it like that. Fingers crossed...Damnit... Jeppers Creepers 2... Ugh! -saintc
