Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) directing 'Hold the Dark' for Netflix

[StarLord]

SlashFilm

Thankfully, it didn’t take director Jeremy Saulnier too long to get his next project up and running. Saulnier is coming off Green Room, a movie seemingly beloved by most people who saw it. Saulnier is following up that intense thriller with Hold the Dark, which is a bloody and violent tale prominently set in Alaska.

The Calgary Herald reports Saulnier starts shooting his next feature on February 27, 2017. Saulnier, whose three films have been originals up until this point, is adapting William Giraldi’s novel published in 2014. Set during the start of a harsh winter, the story involves a pack of wolves taking three children from the village of Keelut and it’s up to wolf expert Russell Core to investigate. After a six-year-old is killed, the child’s mother, Medora, goes missing. Her husband, Vernon Slone, returns home from the Iraq War and begins a search, possibly to harm his wife. Here’s the book’s synopsis:

Written with “force and precision and grace” (John Wilwol, New York Times Book Review) Hold the Dark is a “taut and unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness” (Dennis Lehane). At the start of another pitiless winter, wolves have taken three children from the remote Alaskan village of Keelut, including the six-year-old son of Medora and Vernon Slone. Wolf expert Russell Core is called in to investigate these killings and discovers an unholy truth harbored by Medora before she disappears. When her husband returns home to discover his boy dead and his wife missing, he begins a maniacal pursuit that cuts a bloody swath across the frozen landscape. With the help of a local police detective, Core attempts to find Medora before her husband does, setting in motion a deadly chain of events in this “chilling, mysterious, and completely engaging novel” (Tim O’Brien) that marks the arrival of a major American writer.

The distinct setting, the heaviness of the situation, and all the death — this certainly sounds like a story the director of Blue Ruin and Green Room could tell. Hold the Dark sounds bigger in scope compared Saulnier’s previous films, too, so we’ll get to see what the filmmaker can accomplish with more resources.

Netflix is behind the film, which doesn’t have an official cast yet. Saulnier will shoot in Alberta, Canada, for the Alaskan scenes, as well as a few days in Morroco, likely for Vernon’s storyline.

 

[Bats123]

Nice!
Although i was expecting another color themed title >__>

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

Sounds awesome. Anything he does I will be excited for.

 

[StarLord]

Yeah, the wolves and winter setting should be interesting especially seeing how brutal Saulnier can go.

 

[StarLord]

The Wrap

Jeremy Saulnier has set the cast for his next film, “Hold the Dark.”

The Netflix thriller will star Alexander Skarsgard, Jeffrey Wright, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough and James Bloor.

Wright will play the biologist, Badge Dale plays a detective. Skarsgard plays the father and Keough will play the mother, while Bloor’s character is described as a creepy drifter.

Macon Blair, who starred in Saulnier’s debut film “Blue Ruin,” will write the script.

 

[dude stannis]

So they haven't cast the lead?

 

[ice79]

is the lead Jeffrey Wright's biologist, Skarsgård's husband on a rampage or the cop?

Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgard and James Badge Dale will star in Hold the Dark, Netflix’s adventure thriller from director Jeremy Saulnier.

Riley Keough and James Bloor are also cast in the project, which is Saulnier’s follow-up to his acclaimed Anton Yelchin thriller Green Room.

Dark adapts the book by William Giraldi and is set in a remote Alaskan wilderness in which wolves have taken and killed children. A wolf expert biologist is called in to investigate but finds himself in between in between a secret-harboring mother, who disappears, and her husband, who goes on a maniacal spree when he returns from Iraq and learns of his son’s death. White cold snow runs red with hot blood.

Wright will play the biologist caught up in the spree while Badge Dale is a detective who wants to catch the husband, to be played by Skarsgard. Keough will play the mother and Bloor a creepy drifter.

The movie is looking at shooting in Alberta, Canada in March.

Macon Blair wrote the script. Producing are Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder, as well as Eva Maria Daniels, Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp

CAA-repped Wright is one of the stars of HBO’s Westworld and appeared in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay movies.

Skarsgard last year starred as Tarzan in The Legend of Tarzan and appears opposite Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon in HBO’s Big Little Lies. He is repped by CAA and Hansen Jacobson.

Badge Dale was part of Michael Bay’s 13 Hours and recently wrapped The Empty Man, Fox’s adaptation of a Boom! comic. He is repped by CAA and MJ Management.

Keough, who appeared in Mad Max: Fury Road, has two films recently wrapped: noir thriller Under the Silver Moon by It Follows filmmaker David Robert Mitchell, and Logan Lucky from Steven Soderbergh. She is repped by WME.

Bloor, repped by CAA and Grandview, is a newcomer who will not only be seen in Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot Leatherface but also in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.

THR

 

[scarlet-witch]

I'm sold no matter what. Blue Ruin and Green Room were great.

 

[StarLord]

Saulnier's tweet from April 28th.

Wrap on Morocco, wrap on Hold The Dark!

 

[Luigi]

Awesome! Wonder if he'll have it ready in time for TIFF.

 

[ice79]

Another Netflix title that seemed like a strong contender for Cannes was Jeremy Saulnier’s “Hold the Dark,” the story of a writer hired to find a missing child in the Alaskan wilderness. It would have been a natural step up for a genre director whose “Blue Ruin” and “Green Room” had been previous hits at Cannes. Shortly after Netflix pulled “Hold the Dark,” Saulnier told IndieWire that he thought it was “a shame” and added, “I respect Netflix for carving new paths that bypass traditional methods of distribution to directly connect with a humungous audience. But both entities are evolving, and I think eventually they’ll work out their differences.”
Saulnier expressed particular frustration over the impact of the Cannes-versus-Netflix debate as it related to arguments about the definitions of movies.

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“‘Hold the Dark’ will be something new, something different,” he said, adding that the film would come out sometime this fall. “But if anyone tries to tell me any of my modest movies aren’t actually movies they can kindly go stab themselves in the face several times and set themselves on fire.”

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Speaking to Empire, Saulnier revealed that the film includes both more carefully-crafted character moments – and even more blood and guts than his previous work. “This film has so many firsts for me,” he said. “It has my record number of intimate dialogue scenes and my highest body count. It has my first war scene, my first aerial sequence, my first time working extensively with animals. So in that regard it was a huge challenge.”

The film arrives on Netflix on 28 September.

 

[Black Narcissus]

I can't wait.

 

[harlequinade]

ON NETFLIX?!

Praying this and Apostle are good

 

[Luigi]

Damn excited for this.

 

[Kane52630]

I was hoping the title would have another color. But I'm here for it.

 

[StarLord]

 

[David H.]

cool i liked wind river

 

[James.B]

[YT]OFAwDO6b5KI[/YT]

 

[David H.]

That trailer is rough but I’m still in.

 

[harlequinade]

At least the trailer is better than that one for Outlaw King yesterday

 

[Kane52630]

The Snowman...but done right.

 

[Sawyer]

At least the trailer is better than that one for Outlaw King yesterday

They both... look fine?

 

[Black Narcissus]

The trade for me to get the script is too much. lol

Eh, just going in blind for this. They did mention this being his more violent movie, so that sounds all good by me.

 

[harlequinade]

The trade for me to get the script is too much. lol

Eh, just going in blind for this. They did mention this being his more violent movie, so that sounds all good by me.

I have it but since it's out next month....I probably won't have the time to read it anyways