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James Wan to Produce Time Travel Thriller ‘Hunting Season’

“Aquaman” director James Wan is ready to supply “Hunting Season,” a time journey thriller from “John Wick” franchise author Derek Kolstad, a person with information of the challenge instructed TheWrap.

Based on a brief story by Frank M. Robinson, “Hunting Season” depitcs a militaristic society during which criminals sentenced to loss of life are despatched again in time and hunted by a posse of noblemen. But whereas the punishment is normally reserved for members of a decrease class, the entire system begins to unravel when a member of the aristocrat class is distributed again in time to America within the mid-20th century.

Kolstad will write the screenplay, and Wan will produce together with his Atomic Monster companion Michael Clear, in addition to “Transformers” producer Don Murphy. Murphy will produce alongside together with his companion Susan Monford via their Angry Films banner.

Peter Luo is govt producing “Hunting Season,” as is Judson Scott for Atomic Monster. Cory Kaplan will oversee the challenge for Angry Films. Starlight and Star Plus are financing the movie.

Wan is in post-production on his subsequent movie, a horror film referred to as “Malignant” that’s additionally produced by his Atomic Monster banner.

Kolstad most not too long ago wrote the third “John Wick” movie “Parabellum,” and he’s behind the upcoming Marvel collection for Disney+, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” He’s additionally a author and govt producer on “Nobody,” a thriller starring Bob Odenkirk.

THR first reported the information of the challenge.

‘Groundhog Day’ and 13 Other Movies That Repeat the Same Day Over and Over (Photos)

You know a film is particular when folks describe it as “Groundhog Day” crossed with… one thing you’d by no means anticipate. Here are a handful of movies that have been impressed by or knowledgeable an analogous time loop story because the Bill Murray rom-com traditional

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“12:01” (1993)

The brief story on which “12:01” is predicated really pre-dates “Groundhog Day” by practically 20 years. It’s a couple of man caught reliving the worst day of his life when his spouse is shot and killed. After receiving {an electrical} shock at midnight, he relives the day past and finds that issues worsen.

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“Run Lola Run” (1998)

Tom Tykwer’s motion traditional takes the time looping premise and turns it right into a kinetic, real-time thrill journey. The title character Lola goes on a 20-minute sprint as repeated a number of instances, with every time depicting slight adjustments within the story that invoke concepts about parallel realities and ethical alternative.

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“50 First Dates” (2004)

Leave it to Adam Sandler to make one other rom-com aping a “Groundhog Day” premise. In this one, Drew Barrymore solely thinks she’s residing the identical day again and again as a result of she has an affliction during which she will’t bear in mind the day past, however it would not cease Sandler from making an attempt to win her over. Short-term reminiscence loss is an actual factor, however not Barrymore’s particular affliction.

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“Primer” (2004)

One of the extra inventive indie time journey tales you’re more likely to see, Shane Carruth’s lo-fi thriller is a densely plotted science fiction story about two entrepreneurial inventors who by accident invent a tool that permits them to journey again in time for a number of hours at a time. Carruth retains us at midnight as to what they’ve really invented till nicely into the movie, and it maintains its pressure because it evolves into a personality research of those two males making an attempt to double cross the opposite.

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