The good folks at Lionsgate have reached an agreement to distribute The Bay, a new ecological disaster/horror movie from the producers of Paranormal Activity. And no, it's not set in Fukushima or the Gulf of Mexico! (/rimshot)
Instead, the film is set to take place in an area of the world that we haven't totally ruined lately: The Chesapeake Bay. The horror movie heel will actually be a isopod parasite, which is a type of crustacean and basically looks like a smaller, grosser shrimp. Like Paranormal Activity before it, The Bay will be filmed worked shoot-style, making use of faux home video (faume video?) and internet-based footage.
Lionsgate's President of Acquisitions and Co-Productions, Jason Constantine, says "This film works so effectively because it establishes a very natural, everyday world, places the audience intimately within it, and then sits back as everything takes a horrific turn." No word on what exactly the horrific turn is, but we've got our fingers crossed for the parasites to develop mind-control.
The creature's only weakness is boiling water and cocktail sauce.
The film will be directed by Barry Levinson, known for helming Toys and Rain Man among other films, and is from a screenplay cowritten by Levinson and first-time screenwriter Michael Wallach. As mentioned earlier, the marketing push, however, looks to be "From the Producers of Paranormal Activity," as Steven Schneider, Jason Blum and Oren Peli have all signed on to The Bay.
Mostly, we're just excited that this flick's success could make it easier to find funding for our screenplay for an old-school slasher set on the Pacific Trash Vortex.
