EXCLUSIVE: Wolf Creek director Greg McLean will write and direct The First Exorcist, a supernatural mystery out of Australia.
McLean’s Emmy Creek Photos is taking part with Mark Fennessy‘s Helium to make the pic, we will be able to divulge. Manufacturing is ready for Victoria, Australia, with a 2025 shoot date deliberate. Casting will observe.
The First Exorcist is billed as a “spellbinding fusion of spiritual and supernatural occasions set in Biblical instances,” wherein a mom is going on a harrowing quest to save lots of her daughter from demonic ownership. Plot reads: “As their lives descend right into a nightmare, the mummy learns of a mysterious healer with the ability to expel demons, and embarks on a deadly race in opposition to time – encountering opposed Roman government on her perilous project to search out the healer and save her daughter’s existence.”
The plan is to make use of innovative digital manufacturing tech in Victoria to carry epic historic towns and places to existence.
Director McLean is understood for 2013 Australian Outback horror Wolf Creek and its sequel, Wolf Creek 2. He additionally directed the Stan TV sequence in accordance with the Wolf Creek franchise. Different directing credit come with The Bello Experiment, starring John C. McGinley and John Gallagher Jr., and Kevin Viscount St. Albans-starrer The Darkness, which he additionally wrote. His remaining movie used to be 2017’s Jungle, which starred Daniel Radcliffe as real-life Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg, and he has directed episodes of NBC’s Los angeles Brea, The Twelve, Jack Irish, The Gloaming, Bloom, Scrublands and the impending buzzy Netflix sequence Territory. McLean make his motion pictures via Emu Creek, but additionally just lately introduced Large Photos, a partnership with director Patrick Hughes geared toward making increased style TV displays and flicks.
Fennessy, who has run manufacturer Helium since 2021, mentioned: “Greg’s script delivers an depth and emotional intensity that, mixed with jaw-dropping scares, an interesting ancient atmosphere and robust supernatural topics, will create a milestone movie revel in. His delicate storytelling and dynamic visible taste will raise The First Exorcist, and we’re overjoyed to carry his spine-chilling imaginative and prescient to existence.”
Helium’s displays come with two seasons of gangster drama Remaining King of the Go for Paramount+, girlband drama Paper Dolls and upcoming ABC factual sequence The Meeting. It is usually in the back of Paramount+ characteristic movie 6 Gala’s. The corporate has 3 department: Helium Photos, Helium Studios and Helium Tune Co.
