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Scribe Team Melton & Dunstan Plot Screen Version Of ‘Black Light’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 2, 2011 @ 10:04am PDTTags: Guillermo Del Toro, Michael De Luca, Patrick Melton
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, the team behind three of the Saw films, are currently doing production rewrite work on the Guillermo del Toro-directed tent pole Pacific Rim for Legendary Pictures. At the same time, they are plotting out the movie adaptation of Black Light, a new thriller novel they wrote with Stephen Romano that was just published by Mulholland Books. They’ve enlisted Michael De Luca to produce, and WME is starting to put the package together. The novel revolves around a private eye who has unique gifts that make him suited to solve cases that involve the supernatural. All the while, he’s obsessed with the mother and father who were killed while he was a child. He uses a “black light” to try and remember his past and contact his parents, to no avail. When a reclusive billionaire hires him, all the pieces begin to fit together. The scribes are repped by WME and Underground Management.

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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
Mike Fleming

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 … Read More »

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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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