Dark Castle's Library?
Nov. 3, 2009
The Bloody Disgusting gang apparently got word that Joel Silver's Dark Castle Films is developing a new genre flick called LIBRARY OF DUST, about which details are scarce.
Doing a but of research, I found that there's about a book of photographs by David Maisel with the same title, and its "plot" seems to correlate with the premise of the film. Here's a small description: In 1913 an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed patients. Their ashes were then stored inside individual copper canisters and moved into a small room, where they were stacked onto pine shelves. After doing some research into the story, Maisel got in touch with the hospital administrators – the same hospital, it turns out, where they once filmed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – and he was granted access to the room in which the canisters were stored.
Over time, however, the canisters have begun to react chemically with the human ashes held inside them; this has thus created mold-like mineral outgrowths on the exterior surfaces of these otherwise gleaming cylinders.
Of course, you can find a horror premise in any scenario, and I guess you can find one here, too. Hopefully we'll learn more about this somewhere down the line.
Spilled Blood: Dark Castle is currently working on UNKNOWN WHITE MALE, starring Liam Neeson and January Jones (pictured above).
