Dog Soldiers and The Descent director Neil Marshall is moving onto Gunn, with Graham McTavish signing up for the new survival horror.
Director Neil Marshall is heading to an oil rig it seems for his next movie, as he puts together a new survival horror by the name of Gunn.
Penned by Doug Rao (and his screenplay is an award-winner already), the movie will take place on a North Sea oil rig that’s been overtaken by a religious sect. It sounds a bit The Wicker Man in the middle of the ocean when described like that. Graham McTavish has signed on the dotted line to lead the movie.
Neil Marshall has form in this genre too, of course. Films such as Dog Soldiers and The Descent sit on his curriculum vitae, and he’s also behind movies such as Doomsday and Centurion. More recently, he directed the 2019 take on Hellboy, and the horror flick The Reckoning.
He’s done a fair amount of television as well, but this sounds like a deliberate push towards the big screen.
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As with many movie projects at the moment, Gunn is heading off to the Cannes Film Market over the coming weeks, looking for distribution partners. The plan is to shoot the movie later this year (Bulgaria and the UK are suggested locations, as per Variety), and that’ll point towards a release in 2026.
Mark Myers is set to produce.
More news on Gunn as we hear it, although inevitably – apart from sales deals – things will be on the quiet side for a little while. Still, it has a script, it has a director, it has a star, and it sounds like it has its locations locked down as well.
We’ll keep you posted as we hear more about Gunn, and as the rest of the casting comes together. In the meantime, a good excuse to dig out our disc of The Descent and give it another spin…
