Call it instead one of those rewarding professional experiences between filmmaker and studio – it certainly appears as if horror genre filmmaker Neil Marshall is going to be an in-house filmmaker for Rogue Pictures as the distribution arm of Focus Features has lassoed the filmmaker’s curious-sounding pitch for a horror-old West period hydrid only moments before Doomsday hits theaters.
Set in the old West, Sacrilege is described by the U.K filmmaker as an ‘Unforgiven’ by way of H.P. Lovecraft, with that grim, gritty setting and a horror element nobody has seen before and will draw on themes of isolation and paranoia and such influences as John Carpenter’s “The Thing.”
Marshall will being writing the project and will most likely be ready to lense the picture sometime next year.