30 Days Of Night director David Slade has taken a bit of time over choosing his follow-up project – and it promises to be a bit more intimate than his snowbound vampire bloodfest.
Unthinkable is a psychological thriller about the interrogation of a man who knows the location of three nuclear weapons hidden within the United States. And obviously he ain’t sayin’…
Now, little is known about the project – other than that it’s being financed by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Peter Woodward and Oren Moverman wrote the script, and Michael Mendolsohn and the brilliantly-named Caldecot Chubb are producing. So we don’t know if the film will venture much outside the interrogation room.
If it doesn’t, then immediately Unthinkable will invite comparisons with Slade’s debut movie, Hard Candy, in which Ellen Page’s calculating teenager kidnapped and tortured Patrick Wilson’s photographer.
Clearly the Sheffield-born director is drawn to tight, claustrophobic drama. And why not, as he’s damn good at it.
Unthinkable is currently prepping and will shoot in the summer. A cast will be announced in due course.