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‘Saw’ Scribes Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan Set Novel ‘Blacklight’ At Little Brown

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 9:24am PSTTags: APA, Book Publishing, Book Publishing Deals, Little Brown, Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton, Underground
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Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, whose credits include the fourth through seven Saw installments as well as the upcoming Hellraiser remake and the sequel Piranha 3 Double D, are moving into publishing with a Little Brown deal for their first novel, Blacklight. The book is the story of a ghost hunter private eye with psychic abilities who is hired to take the inaugural ride on the new bullet train that goes directly from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. His job is to figure out if the train’s haunted, but each case he takes on fuels his own lifelong obsession: to locate the spirits of his parents who were the victims of an unsolved murder when he was a child. The scribes intend for this to be the start of a series surrounding the private eye, Buck Carlsbad. Melton & Dunstan’s reps at Underground and APA will shop the feature rights.

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Dimension Chomping To Get ‘Piranha 3D’ Sequel Into Theaters Next Summer

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 19, 2010 @ 2:05pm PDTTags: Dimension Films, Marcus Dunstan, Movie Deals, Movies, Patrick Melton, Piranha 3D Sequel
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In a move that might not make James Cameron’s day, Dimension Films has locked in a director and writers and will race to get a Piranha 3D sequel up and running quickly enough to hit theaters by late August, 2011. Dimension has set John Gulager to direct and Saw 3D scribes Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to write Piranha 3 DD, the sequel to last summer’s toothy fish fest that found itself earning the ire of Cameron. The filmmaker cited it as an example of the hasty 3D conversions, while  he was barnstorming for Avatar. That led to a sharp — and lengthy — rebuke from Piranha 3D’s producer Mark Canton. For the sequel, Dimension’s Bob Weinstein has reassembled the team behind Feast, the Dimension horror film that served as a season of the TV show Project Greenlight. Read More »

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