Community’s Donald Glover and American Horror Story’s Evan Peters have signed up to star in Reawakening for director David Gelb (a few months about the directorial quartet Radio Silence (V/H/S) were in talks to helm, but they are no longer involved).
The film, based on Luke Dawson’s script, is about a group of students who find a way to bring the dead back to life. As you might expect, they soon discover that there are dire consequences to those actions (these sort of things never go well in the movies, do they?). Donald Glover and Evan Peters will play members of this research team, alongside the previously-attached Mark Duplass and Olivia Wilde.
Jason Blum is producing through his Blumhouse Studios company, with Lionsgate’s Erik Feig and John Sacchi overseeing the project for the studio. (Source: TheWrap)
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‘Since Philadelphia there have been, by my count, 257 Academy Award-nominated portrayals of heterosexual characters, and 23 of gay, bisexual or transsexual characters. Of the heterosexual characters, 16.5% (59) die. Of the LGBT characters, 56.5% (13) die. Of the 10 LGBT characters who live, only four get happy endings. That’s four characters in 19 years. Behind the Candelabra won’t be eligible for any Academy Awards due to its cable TV distribution, but it’s keeping Oscar’s kill-the-gays mentality alive and kicking. Or rather, dying and haemorrhaging.’
With news that a law banning the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ in Russia has passed its second reading, gay pride rallies being banned and officials saying they’re moving to ban foreign gay couple from adopting Russian babies, the massive country is certainly taking an increasingly homophobic course.