EXCLUSIVE: Wolf Creek director Greg McLean will author and direct The First Exorcist, a supernatural thriller out of Australia.
McLean’s Emmy Creek Footage is collaborating with Mark Fennessy‘s Helium to make the pic, we are able to reveal. Manufacturing is about for Victoria, Australia, with a 2025 shoot date deliberate. Casting will comply with.
The First Exorcist is billed as a “spellbinding fusion of spiritual and supernatural occasions set in Biblical occasions,” during which a mom goes on a harrowing quest to avoid wasting her daughter from demonic possession. Plot reads: “As their lives descend right into a nightmare, the mom learns of a mysterious healer with the facility to expel demons, and embarks on a harmful race towards time – encountering hostile Roman authorities on her perilous mission to seek out the healer and save her daughter’s life.”
The plan is to make use of innovative digital manufacturing tech in Victoria to carry epic historical cities and areas to life.
Director McLean is understood for 2013 Australian Outback horror Wolf Creek and its sequel, Wolf Creek 2. He additionally directed the Stan TV collection based mostly on the Wolf Creek franchise. Different directing credit embody The Bello Experiment, starring John C. McGinley and John Gallagher Jr., and Kevin Bacon-starrer The Darkness, which he additionally wrote. His final movie was 2017’s Jungle, which starred Daniel Radcliffe as real-life Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg, and he has directed episodes of NBC’s La Brea, The Twelve, Jack Irish, The Gloaming, Bloom, Scrublands and the upcoming buzzy Netflix collection Territory. McLean make his movies by means of Emu Creek, but in addition not too long ago launched Large Footage, a partnership with director Patrick Hughes aimed toward making elevated style TV exhibits and movies.
Fennessy, who has run producer Helium since 2021, stated: “Greg’s script delivers an depth and emotional depth that, mixed with jaw-dropping scares, an interesting historic setting and highly effective supernatural themes, will create a milestone movie expertise. His refined storytelling and dynamic visible type will elevate The First Exorcist, and we’re thrilled to carry his spine-chilling imaginative and prescient to life.”
Helium’s exhibits embody two seasons of gangster drama Final King of the Cross for Paramount+, girlband drama Paper Dolls and upcoming ABC factual collection The Meeting. Additionally it is behind Paramount+ characteristic movie 6 Festivals. The corporate has three division: Helium Footage, Helium Studios and Helium Music Co.
