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Gunn Talks New Project
By Dave Dreher
Apr 20, 2006, 08:18

Even though horror fans did not turn out in droves for his latest effort Slither James Gunn is not one to lie back and worry about it.  He spoke shortly with Now Playing magazine in which he discusses a new project titled Scratch.  Here is the report:

James Gunn is recovering nicely from the disappointing release of his directorial debut Slither. Despite a lackluster box office, Gunn faced a press line, all smiles and happy to spill about the next script he is writing for himself to direct. Tentatively titled Scratch, the film deals with some of Gunn’s favorite subjects.

“Well, it’s a horror movie but it’s about evil within a family,” Gunn says. “It has a little bit to do with Satan and I’m just dealing with it right now. I love creepy kids and I love bad pregnancies. Those are my two favorite things so this one has both in spades.”

Gunn is branching out from his previous horror movies. Instead of deriving influence from his favorite subgenres, he is creating his own. “Really I just had this idea in my head. It wasn’t the same as with Dawn of the Dead. There’s something about the movies of the ’70s that I really wanted to get the grit [of]. … With Slither I really wanted to bring back the fun of the movies of the ’80s and with this new thing, it’s just sort of its own thing. I don’t like too many horror movies from the ’90s so I don’t really want to play with that. …It’s just its own thing.”

There is currently no studio attached to Scratch. “I’m just writing it. I’m doing exactly what I did the last couple times, which is write it and then go out. Because the thing is I like making movies. I like going out and getting them made. What happens when you get attached to a studio beforehand, you can end up in development hell. This one I can go out to all the studios and whoever wants to make the movie, that’s who I’ll go with.”

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