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Campos In Talks to Direct “The Omen” Prequel

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It may turn out to be a scary First for Antonio Campos…

The half-Brazilian American filmmaker is in talks to direct the supernatural horror thriller The First Omen for 20th Century Fox.

Antonio Campos

It’s a prequel to The Omen, which is being planned for release some forty years after the original was first released.

Campos most recently directed the Sundance Film Festival movie Christine.

The original movie starred the great Gregory Peck as an ambassador who comes to believe that his 5-year-old son may be the living embodiment of the Antichrist.

The movie, directed by Richard Donner, was one of the biggest hits of the year and considered one of the scariest movies of the decade. It introduced Damien, the name of the son, into the pop culture lexicon, and preyed on fears of baby swapping and evil nannies.

Omen spawned two sequels and a series of novels. Fox remade the movie once before, in a 2006 iteration directed by John Moore and starring Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles.

Fox is currently airing a TV version of The Omen titled Damien, helmed by The Walking Dead‘s Glen Mazzara.

Ben Jacoby wrote the script for the prequel.

Campos is a player in the indie sphere and was a producer on movies such as Martha Marcy May Marlene. He previously directed 2012’s Simon Killer. His drama Christine starred Rebecca Hall and Michael C. Hall and premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where distribution outfit The Orchard snapped up domestic rights.

Cuarón Offered the Opportunity to Direct the Prequel to the Horror Classic “The Shining”

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Alfonso Cuarón is being presented with a shining opportunity…

The 52-year-old Mexican filmmaker, who was named Best Director at this year’s Oscars, is reportedly being offered the opportunity to helm a prequel to the horror classic The Shining.

Alfonso Cuaron

The project is reportedly called “The Overlook Hotel“.

Glen Mazzara, the former showrunner on AMC’s The Walking Dead, is in talks to write the script.

The original film, released in 1980, starred Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, a father who brings his wife and son to an isolated hotel for the winter. Due to an evil presence in the hotel, Torrance goes crazy and becomes violent.

It’s based on a novel of the same name by Stephen King. A follow-up book titled Doctor Sleep was released in 2013.

When asked about the prequel plan earlier this year, King told Entertainment Weekly, “There’s a real question about whether or not they have the rights to Before the Play, which was the prologue cut from the book – because the epilogue to the book was called After the Play. So they were bookends, and there was really scary stuff in that prologue that wouldn’t make a bad movie. Am I eager to see that happen? No I am not.”

“And there’s some real question about what rights Warner Bros. does still have. The Shining is such an old book now that the copyright comes back to me. Arguably, the film rights lapse – so we’ll see. We’re looking into that.” 

”I’m not saying I would put a stop to the project, because I’m sort of a nice guy. When I was a kid, my mother said, ‘Stephen if you were a girl, you’d always be pregnant.’ I have a tendency to let people develop things. I’m always curious to see what will happen. But you know what? I would be just as happy if it didn’t happen.”