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Master of Horror set to bring you the girl of your dreams. John
Carpenter is onboard to direct Darkchylde, based on the comic by Randy
Queen about a good hearted southern teen cursed to become the creatures
from her many recurring nightmares. Every time Ariel Chylde transforms,
she sheds her skin and a new nightmare emerges from her Id to act out
her deepest, darkest impulses.
John Carpenter and Sandy King's Storm King Productions have allied with
Randy and Sarah Queen's Darkchylde Ent. to produce the film, following
the release of test footage created by Richard Taylor's Academy Award
Winning Weta Workshop. (The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, King Kong, The
Hobbit)
John Carpenter says, "Randy Queen's hijacked angel, Ariel Chylde,
is the best young female character since Laurie Strode in Halloween.
Bringing Ariel and her dark mysteries to life should be quite an
adventure for us all."
Adds Queen, "I'm beyond thrilled that John Carpenter, one of our most
important, and legendary genre directors, and the man responsible for
such landmark films as THE THING, and HALLOWEEN has come onboard with
Weta Workshop to help bring the nightmarish tale of Ariel Chylde to the
silver screen. As a horror fan, the thought of Carpenter and Weta
together, beautiful dreamscapes, and multiple transformations, makes me
incredibly excited. There is a reason nearly his entire catalogue
has, or is being remade, and it's because Carpenter is a genius."
Offering a stark contrast to super hero comics, Darkchylde was a
breakout sensation of the late 90's and early 2000's, garnering
immediate acclaim, and an unusually large female fanbase. The property
went on to outsell Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman in both domestic
and foreign audiences, and has been realized in toys, trading cards,
apparel, lunch boxes, mini busts, and more recently a hit crossover
with Top Cow, and a statue from PopCultureShockToys. Fans can now read
the Ariel Chylde saga online via Wowio and Darkchylde.com and a trade
paperback collecting the "Legacy" and "Redemption" series of books
ships in January from Image Comics.
John Carpenter is an acclaimed director, screenwriter, producer, and
composer, who won an academy award for his short film while still just
a student at USC. His storied career includes such seminal films as
Halloween, The Thing, Escape from New York, Starman, Christine, In the
Mouth of Madness, Assault on Precinct 13, They Live, and The Fog. His
most recent outing, The Ward, starring Amber Heard as an
institutionalized woman tormented by a sinister spirit, premiered at
the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
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