Deadline is reporting that Constantin Film is in development on a reboot of the cannibal horror series Wrong Turn, with Mike P. Nelson (The Domestics) set to direct from a script by franchise creator Alan McElroy.
The Wrong Turn franchise revolves around various deformed cannibal families in a remote part of West Virginia. The first film was released in 2003 and starred Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto and Kevin Zegers. Grossing $30 million at the box office, it spawned five further straight-to-video instalments (two sequels and three prequels), the last of which arrived in 2014.
The new film is described as “a timely and topical meditation on society and its issues. A cross-country hiking expedition puts a group of friends in the land of an inclusive society, where they soon discover they are under a different rule of law, and may not be the victims they thought they were.”
“Alan’s re-interpretation of his own work and Mike’s vision are a frightening reflection of our world today: one person’s American dream is another’s worst nightmare,” said producer Robert Kulzer and executive producer Martin Moskowicz of Constantin Film.
