Guillermo Morales Injects ‘Venom’ onto His Future Schedule

The Guillermo Del Toro produced “Julia’s Eyes” became the second biggest grossing Spanish film of 2010. Now, the director Guillermo Morales (“The Uninvited Guest”) and co-writer Oriol Paulo team up again for a new horror thriller called “Venom“.

Shot in English, the 12 million Euro production which is pegged to begin principal shooting next year with a release date set approximately for the end of 2012. In the statement from prod co. RodaryRodar (the company behind “The Orphanage”) “‘Venom will be about a major pharmaceutical company based on a remote island that keeps dangerous snakes to test their venom in the hope of treating serious illnesses, when one day an accident occurs with disastrous consequences.”

Also worth noting, RodaryRodar will also produce Paulo’s directing debut based on his own script “The Body” — an English-language thriller that is budgeted at $14m. This is about a police inspector investigating a missing dead body, whose chief point of help is the dead woman’s husband, but clues soon reveal he could be the suspect.