Exclusive: Writer talks sci-fi Hearts of Darkness for Haunting in Connecticut director

Radar Pictures announced today that The Haunting in Connecticut‘s director Peter Cornwell would direct Into Darkness, a sci-fi retelling of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, based off of Tony Giglio’s script. That’s all Variety had on the cool sounding production.

Killer Film quickly caught up with screenwriter Tony Giglio (Death Race 2, Choas) to talk more about this project, and the team behind it. Here’s our exclusive chat:

“Great novels are great because they can be revisited over and over and loved and appreciated by different generations. HEART OF DARKNESS can be interpreted differently now then when it came out,” says Giglio to us about the famous Francis Ford Coppola film. “And each time it can mean something new and relevant. That’s what happened in our case.”

He continues: “I thought there was definitely something in Conrad’s novel that was relevant today. Branden [Morgan, who co-wrote the screenplay] is a great actor and terrific friend who had no previous screenwriting experience before he and I teamed up. But from directing him in two of my films, I knew his passion for film and story-telling were strong.”

“While the easy pitch for INTO DARKNESS is APOCALYPSE NOW in Space,” explains Giglio, “myself and Branden definitely went back to the source material for our inspiration first and foremost. We’re not trying to compete with Coppola’s iconic film. That would be suicide. We have an original story.”

“I’m not at liberty to discuss too much plot,” Giglio states understandably, “but the main inspiration for the script came from the simple fact that Conrad’s novel revolved around a dark journey into a largely unknown and unexplored terrain. The greatest unknown and unexplored dark terrain in my opinion is space. The idea for the film’s plot snowballed from there. We’re very excited to be working with Peter Cornwell.”

More on this title as it gears up for production. Does this sound cool or what?

Source: Killer Film

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