Smith commences in ‘Ruins’

Folks remember this name: Carter Smith. Now try and find a way to see his short film that premed at last year’s Cannes and Sundance. It’s called Bug Crush. The video-hemler & famed photography will now direct his first feature length film. Production Weekly reports that he is on board to helm The Ruins.

Based on Scott Smith's novel, this follows four American friends on vacation in Cancún, Mexico—Jeff, Amy, Eric and Stacy—who meet a German tourist, Mathias, and persuades them to join his hunt for his younger brother, Henrich, last seen headed off with a new girlfriend toward some ruins. The four soon regret their impulsive decision after they find themselves lost in the jungle and freaked out by signs that they’re headed for danger.
 
The DreamWorks Pictures production is slated for early May in Queensland, Australia.