The last time we checked, Joel Schumacher’s next movie, Inland Saints was called Fix, and was a gritty urban thriller about a gang leader who falls in love with the daughter of a detective tasked with bringing down the gang.
Well, not any more. Schumacher has brought on new writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift to retool Kurt Sutter’s script, and the result is a new title and a bold new direction.
For the movie is now an action horror set in a small-town desert wasteland. Plot details are scarce at the moment, but gangsters and drugs are still involved… just not in the way they once were.
It’s perhaps no surprise that the film has moved in this direction. After all, Shannon and Swift are the writers of the upcoming Friday The 13th remake, so horror comes naturally to them, while Schumacher – director of The Lost Boys, Flatliners and, most terrifying of all, Batman And Robin – has been gravitating back toward horror recently.
For example his next film, Creek, is an utterly barmy horror involving Nazis, creatures, and that guy with no neck from Prison Break. So Inland Saints will continue his new scary streak.
Paramount is funding the project, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing, along with Eli Holzman.