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Adam Salky Directing Netflix’s ‘Intrusion’ Starring Logan Marshall-Green 

I Smile Back‘s Adam Salky has taken his place in the director’s chair for Netflix‘s upcoming home invasion thriller Intrusion, THR reports. Written by Chris Sparling (Buried), the film stars Logan Marshall-Green (Upgrade) and Freida Pinto (“The Path”). The film centers on “a husband and wife (Marshall-Green and Pinto) who move to a small town, and suffer a home invasion that leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem.” Sparling, Kyle Benn, Josh Weinstock, Alexandra Milchan, Matthew Myers, and Russell Hollander are producing.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 3, 2020
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Leigh Whannell’s ‘Upgrade’ Is Getting A Series Adaptation

Blumhouse Television and UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, are teaming up for the series adaption of Leigh Whannell’s 2018 sci-fi, thriller Upgrade, which Whannell co-created and will direct, as well as executive produce along with showrunner Tim Walsh (Treadstone, Chicago P.D., Shooter). The series picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an evolved version of STEM and a new host in a world in which the government repurposes STEM to help curb criminal activity. A writer’s room has begun work on the series’ first season. Krystal Ziv Houghton and James Roland, who ran the second season of The Purge, have joined Whannell and Walsh. The film, which Whannell both wrote and directed, starred Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, and Harrison Gilbertson. In the film, after his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace (Marshall-Green) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020

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Adam Salky Directing Netflix’s ‘Intrusion’ Starring Logan Marshall-Green 

I Smile Back‘s Adam Salky has taken his place in the director’s chair for Netflix‘s upcoming home invasion thriller Intrusion, THR reports. Written by Chris Sparling (Buried), the film stars Logan Marshall-Green (Upgrade) and Freida Pinto (“The Path”). The film centers on “a husband and wife (Marshall-Green and Pinto) who move to a small town, and suffer a home invasion that leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem.” Sparling, Kyle Benn, Josh Weinstock, Alexandra Milchan, Matthew Myers, and Russell Hollander are producing.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 3, 2020
Horror Fuel

Leigh Whannell’s ‘Upgrade’ Is Getting A Series Adaptation

Blumhouse Television and UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, are teaming up for the series adaption of Leigh Whannell’s 2018 sci-fi, thriller Upgrade, which Whannell co-created and will direct, as well as executive produce along with showrunner Tim Walsh (Treadstone, Chicago P.D., Shooter). The series picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an evolved version of STEM and a new host in a world in which the government repurposes STEM to help curb criminal activity. A writer’s room has begun work on the series’ first season. Krystal Ziv Houghton and James Roland, who ran the second season of The Purge, have joined Whannell and Walsh. The film, which Whannell both wrote and directed, starred Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, and Harrison Gilbertson. In the film, after his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace (Marshall-Green) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020