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Pearce Going to ‘Dark’ Side

Chalk one more independent production up for Guy Pearce. Soon to be seen in his second collaboration with John Hillcoat’s The Road and currently can be seen in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, the actor is currently in final negotiations to play the annoyed author/father who is fed up with his daughter’s distractions in Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.

Chalk one more independent production up for Guy Pearce. Soon to be seen in his second collaboration with John Hillcoat‘s The Road and currently can be seen in Kathryn Bigelow‘s The Hurt Locker, the actor is currently in final negotiations to play the annoyed author/father who is fed up with his daughter’s distractions in Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. Sounds like an author and parent we know from Kubrick‘s The Shining. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the actor might be joining the project while the daughter role has been filled out by a young, but already veteran actress in Bailee Madison.

Scripted by Guillermo Del Toro and Matthew Robbins, this is based on a remake of the 1973 ABC TV movie. This centers on a young girl, sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend (played by Katie Holmes), who discovers sinister creatures that live underneath the stairs. The movie is set to begin production next month in Melbourne, Australia.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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