The Invasion News
Duo plots on 'Invasion'
10/17/05Todd Garner and Mike Fleiss have purchased and are producing "Invasion," based on an original script by the writing team of Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan. Garner and Fleiss will finance the film independently. Once development is complete, they will seek distribution. "Invasion" is a horror movie set around a home invasion. Garner said he went to McWeeny and Swan because "they have a great understanding of the (horror) genre. And Mike, too. I'm really leaning on these guys to make sure we are trying to do something a little out of the ordinary."
Kidman to star in "Invasion"
08/01/05In a payday said to be worth close to $16 million, Nicole Kidman is set to star in "Invasion," a sci-fi thriller for Warner Bros. The movie will mark the first English-language studio feature for Oliver Hirschbiegel, the German director of "Downfall." Joel Silver is producing through Silver Movietures; shooting will begin in September. The David Kajganich-scripted thriller revolves around an insidious and behavior-changing epidemic that decimates the human race. Kidman, who last haunted the thriller genre with "The Others," will play a D.C. psychiatrist who figures out that extraterrestrials are behind the invasion. She battles to protect her son, who may hold the key to stopping the takeover. The movie was originally hatched as a redo of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Kajganich, a former English professor from Miami U. of Ohio, instead crafted a thriller with a concept different enough that the studio sees it as an original.
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