4 years in the past, through the early days of the pandemic, got here the information that Sony Footage was reportedly growing a reimagining of the cult 1997 horror movie “Anaconda”.
The studio had reportedly employed Evan Daugherty (“Snow White and the Huntsman”) to pen the script. Then final 12 months got here ord that Tom Gormican, the director of the Nicolas Cage meta movie “The Insufferable Weight of Large Expertise,” was now writing the script.
Right now, Jeff Sneider is reporting on The Scorching Mic podcast that the brand new “Anaconda” movie will go the “New Nightmare” meta route – with actors enjoying heightened variations of themselves as they movie a brand new “Anaconda” film on location – earlier than issues get actual and lethal.
Sneider stresses that at the very least one key actor, if not actors, in query haven’t but signed up for the venture so issues might change.
Jennifer Lopez, Ice Dice, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, Kari Wuhrer and Jonathan Hyde starred within the 1997 authentic whichfollowed a documentary movie crew within the Amazon that comes throughout an obsessed Paraguayan hunter (Jon Voight) seeking to discover a legendary anaconda.
The hunter derails the expedition for his personal function, with the filmmakers now compelled to cope with a murderous madman and a large snake that can squeeze the life out of them and swallow them entire. It launched a franchise, together with one theatrical sequel and three direct-to-home releases.