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Resonant: The First Purge director Gerard McMurray to adapt the Vault Comics hit for a pulse-pounding series

Posted 4 years ago

The First Purge director Gerard McMurray is about to tackle another comic book adaptation when he brings Vault Comics’ Resonant to television. The project is part of an overall deal McMurray has signed with BET. The adaptation hails from CBS Studios and Ridley...

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Black comic adaptation sets The First Purge filmmaker Gerard McMurray to write and direct

Posted 4 years ago

There’s been some significant movement on the Black comic adaptation from Studio 8. We’ve learned that The First Purge helmer Gerard McMurray will write and direct the film set in a universe where only Black people possess superpowers. The Black...

The Formula: John Boyega & Robert De Niro to costar in Netflix racing movie

Posted 5 years ago

Gerard McMurray, whose director credits include The First Purge as well as the Netflix Original film Burning Sands, is teaming up with the streamer once again for The Formula, an upcoming film starring John Boyega and Robert De Niro. Directed,...

Narcos: Mexico’s Tenoch Huerta to star in next sequel to The Purge

Posted 7 years ago

The fifth installment of THE PURGE franchise is beginning to take shape and THR has reported that the project has found its male lead in Tenoch Huerta, who you might remember as the infamous drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero in...

Everardo Gout to helm the next installment of The Purge franchise

Posted 7 years ago

THE PURGE franchise continues to truck along as audiences can't seem to get enough of those 12 hours a year in which all crime is legal. The fifth installment of the series is gearing up and Variety has reported that...

Gerard McMurray to write & direct Michael B. Jordan in The Silver Bear

Posted 7 years ago

Gerard McMurray served as an associate producer on FRUITVALE STATION, one of Michael B. Jordan's first big films after CHRONICLE, and now the pair are set to reunite once again with THE SILVER BEAR, an upcoming hitman drama based upon...

USA Network renews The Purge for a second season

Posted 8 years ago

I hope you're ready to get your Purge on once again as USA Network announced today that they will be picking up The Purge for a second season. The first season of the series, which will be airing its finale...

The Purge creator thinks the next movie will bring the series to an end

Posted 8 years ago

Like a Little Engine That Could filled with murder, mayhem and terror, THE PURGE series is one of the most surprisingly successful franchises to come around in the last few years. Over the course of four years and hundreds of...

The First Purge (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: In Staten Island, New York, the very first experimental purge is conducted by the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA). REVIEW: Just when writer/director and franchise creator James DeMonaco found the sweet-spot of highly entertaining topical salience two years...

Review: The First Purge

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: In an attempt to find a cure for overcrowding and crime, the US government turns Staten Island into a testing ground for a controversial experiment. Those willing to stay are given an extra financial incentive to join in on...

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