EXCLUSIVE: Wolf Creek director Greg McLean will author and direct The First Exorcist, a supernatural thriller out of Australia.
McLean’s Emmy Creek Photos is collaborating with Mark Fennessy‘s Helium to make the pic, we are able to reveal. Manufacturing is ready for Victoria, Australia, with a 2025 shoot date deliberate. Casting will observe.
The First Exorcist is billed as a “spellbinding fusion of spiritual and supernatural occasions set in Biblical instances,” by which a mom goes on a harrowing quest to save lots of 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 leading edge digital manufacturing tech in Victoria to deliver epic historic 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 sequence primarily based on the Wolf Creek franchise. Different directing credit embrace 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 sequence Territory. McLean make his movies via Emu Creek, but additionally lately launched Big Photos, a partnership with director Patrick Hughes aimed toward making elevated style TV reveals and movies.
Fennessy, who has run producer Helium since 2021, mentioned: “Greg’s script delivers an depth and emotional depth that, mixed with jaw-dropping scares, an enchanting historic setting and highly effective supernatural themes, will create a milestone movie expertise. His refined storytelling and dynamic visible fashion will elevate The First Exorcist, and we’re thrilled to deliver his spine-chilling imaginative and prescient to life.”
Helium’s reveals embrace two seasons of gangster drama Final King of the Cross for Paramount+, girlband drama Paper Dolls and upcoming ABC factual sequence The Meeting. Additionally it is behind Paramount+ function movie 6 Festivals. The corporate has three division: Helium Photos, Helium Studios and Helium Music Co.
