Peter Ramsey Stakes Supernatural Thriller Blood Count at Paramount

The essential and industrial success of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse isn’t simply resulting in one other comply with up, it’s serving to one among its administrators get their subsequent large challenge off the bottom. While co-director Peter Ramsey continues to be available for each Across the Spider-Verse and its 2023 sequel as an government producer, his subsequent directorial challenge (nicely, one among them) is abandoning animation solely.

Ramsey’s subsequent movie to be helmed might be a dwell motion “social thriller” at the moment referred to as Blood Count. The setup sounds fairly enjoyable: it’s Fifties Los Angeles, however with vampires thrown in for just a bit additional good measure. With how nicely vampires will be slotted into nearly any situation, it must be a fairly good time with the best forged hooked up to it. Paramount picked up the rights to Ramsey’s spec script, which is claimed to be partially based mostly on the lifetime of his jazz musician father. Producing the movie might be SpringHill, Lebron James and Maverick Carter’s manufacturing firm at the moment heading up an adaptation of Jerry Craft’s 2019 graphic novel, New Kid.

Though Ramsey first bought his begin as a storyboard artist for Nightmare on Elm Street 5 in 1989, animation is maybe what he’s finest recognized for. He grew to become a storyboard artist for Dreamworks’ Shrek the Third and Shrek the Halls, finally working his approach up and making his directorial debut with a vacation particular for Monsters vs. Aliens. Other than Spider-Verse, the movie most of us will affiliate him with is maybe 2012’s very underrated Rise of the Guardians, based mostly on the kids’s e book collection by William Joyce. Ramsey directed one other of Joyce’s books: Lost Ollie, based mostly on the writer’s 2016 e book Ollie’s Odyssey, which is ready to debut as a TV present for Netflix later this yr.

At this time, Blood Count is within the early phases of growth, and it’s not the one movie that Ramsey has on his docket. Another dwell motion movie he’s bought within the works is the biopic Love in Vain, which focuses on the Blues pioneer Robert Johnson. (Like Blood Count, this one can also be at Paramount.) Whichever movie releases first will function his first dwell motion function movie he’s directed.

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