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- Samuel Bayer will in fact helm Rogue Pictures' Near Dark remake for Platinum Dunes. Bayer directed music videos for The Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, Green Day, Garbage and many others.
- Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the duo behind New Line Cinema's successful Freddy vs Jason, have both been attached to write a new screenplay for Platinum Dunes' remake of Friday the 13th. Watch for more news as it develops and keep your fingers crossed for Jason Voorhees back in theaters in 2008.
- Ian McShane (Case 39), Natalie Martinez, Max Ryan, Jason Clarke and Fred Koehler will join Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Joan Allen and John Fallon in Paul W.S Anderson's Death Race remake, which began shooting August 28 and will wrap around November 1 in Montreal, Canada. Set in a future version of America, a prisoner (Statham) who is weeks away from being released is forced by his warden (Allen) to compete in a brutal, deadly car race alongside his fellow inmates.
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