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Former Felicity star Keri Russell has signed on to play the lead in Dark Skies, the supernatural thriller written and to be directed by Scott Stewart for Dimension Films. The film is more modest-budget scare fare from Insidious and Paranormal Activity producers Blumhouse, with production to begin this summer.
Related: Dimension Acquires Scott Stewart-Directed ‘Dark Skies’
Stewart wrote-directed Priest and Legion, and the film’s being produced by Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Alliance Films, the latter of which is financing. Russell, whose film work includes Waitress and Mission: Impossible 3, is repped by WME and managed by The Burstein Company.
Dimension is distributing in the U.S. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Alliance Films’ Charles Layton will executive produce. Alliance Films will distribute in Canada, in the U.K. (via its Momentum Pictures subsidiary), and in Spain (via Aurum). Octane, IM Global’s genre division, is handling international rights.
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Love her. She should’ve been Oscar nominated for Waitress.
Okay… but what is the film about?
I was excited about this one before this announcement, but now I can hardly contain myself! She is awesome.
This girl has bags of talent, I hope she can find another drama to prove her skills. Anything else is welcome in the meantime.
Love my Felicity! Keri is a great actress and should be A-list. She’s getting there.
What a moron. Low-budget horror wasn’t exactly a career booster for WB starlets back in 1998-99 when they were actually famous (see Sarah Michelle Gellar, Katie Holmes).
What makes Keri think this is a good idea almost 15 years later?
I think she’s great but between that awful sitcom and this announcement, what exaxtly is the deal?
I love how they are snaking this under the radar and that it does not have one thing to do with the original Dark Skies. What a joke… so now Hollywood not only runs out of ideas.. but they Hijack names from popular TV series in the hopes that people are too stupid to figure it out.
Um, Clyde … you and I might be the only people who remember that show. Seriously. It was on Saturday nights on NBC in the mid-90s; it didn’t even last a full season. It might have been an interesting show, but it didn’t develop any of the cult that stuff like FIREFLY or even PROFIT did, so you’re probably being WAY generous calling it “popular.”