Lionsgate has produced an entire trilogy of new films for Foreigners franchising with The Strangers Trilogy, and they’ve released some preview photos showing the return of the sinister masked assassins along with some of the other characters from the story. These photos are from the first chapter of the trilogy.
Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea, Die Hard 2, The Long Kiss Goodnight) will direct the film from a screenplay written by Alan R. Cohen AND Alan Freedland (The Freak Brothers, Expiration Date).
Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale, Jane) is the film’s protagonist and “drives cross-country with her longtime boyfriend (Froy Gutierrez, Cruel Summer, Hocus Pocus 2, Teen Wolf) to start a new life in the Pacific Northwest.”
In the film, “their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, and they are forced to spend the night in a secluded Airbnb, where they are terrorized from dusk to dawn by three masked strangers.” Rachel Shenton takes on the role of Debbie, Petsch’s character’s sister. The film is also the protagonist Emma Horvath (Rings of power) AND Gabe Basso (Mountain elegy).
Harlin tells Entertainment Weekly, “When this opportunity came to me, the idea of not doing a remake or a reboot but doing a trilogy based on the original film, I thought it was an incredible opportunity.” As for the full story of the trilogy, he says it will “explore what happens to the victims of this type of violence and who the perpetrators of this type of violence are. Where do they come from and why?”
I liked the original movie that came out in 2008 and the sequel was decent too. Speaking about choosing Petsch for the lead role, the director said: “Obviously Liv Tyler AND Scott Speedmann he did a fantastic job in the original film and those were some big shoes to fill. We searched long and hard for our scream queen. When I spoke to Madelaine I knew that she was an exceptional person, an exceptional actress, and that was what it took to play this part. Likewise, after looking long and hard, we found Froy Gutierrez, who is another wonderful young actor. We wanted a couple that felt natural and relaxed together. Their relationship may not be identical to the original film, but it’s something that feels very natural and very real, and for me that was the key to this film and this trilogy. It’s realism.”
The director shot all three films simultaneously last year in Slovakia. It will be interesting to see how this trilogy turns out. I actually can’t wait.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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