Joss Whedon's Cabin in the Wods

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Finally found a home

 

It's taken a long time but Joss Whedon's "The Cabin in the Woods" may have finally found a home.

 

Lionsgate is making a deal with MGM to distribute the horror/comedy which Whedon and "Cloverfield" writer Drew Goddard co-wrote says Deadline.

 

Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford play white-collar co-workers who terrorise a group of young people (Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchinson, Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz) who've become stranded in a forest.

 

Shot over two years ago, the project was initially delayed due to plans to convert it into 3D. Then it, along with the "Red Dawn" remake, became a victim of MGM's financial issues.

 

Lionsgate haven't set a specific date, but sometime around Halloween is the best bet.

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Interview with Joss Whedon done by TotalFilm:

 

Keen to get some insight into the thinking behind it, we asked Whedon about the inspiration behind Cabin.

 

“It’s basically a very loving hate letter,” he told us.

 

“On some level it was completely a lark, me and Drew [Goddard, director] trying to figure out what the most fun we could have would be. On another level it’s a serious critique of what we love and what we don’t about horror movies.”

 

On his own genre passion, he added, “I love being scared. I love that mixture of thrill, of horror, that objectification/identification thing of wanting definitely for the people to be alright but at the same time hoping they’ll go somewhere dark and face something awful.”

 

And on the things he hates about lame horror, Whedon said: “The things that I don’t like are kids acting like idiots, the devolution of the horror movie into torture porn and into a long series of sadistic comeuppances. Drew and I both felt that the pendulum had sung a little too far in that direction.”

 

The Cabin In The Woods opens on 13 April 2012.