Michael Chaves made his feature directorial debut with the Conjuring Universe-adjacent horror film The Curse of La Llorona, and has followed that up with the actual Conjuring Universe entries The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Nun II, and The Conjuring: Last Rites. Eleven months ago, we learned that he had signed on to make his first movie that doesn’t have anything to do with The Conjuring or its spin-offs at all: a survival thriller called Yeti. Now, Deadline reports that he has started assembling his cast, which will include Chris Pine (Star Trek) and Sofia Boutella (Rebel Moon).
Synopsis
Yeti was originally set up at Sony and Picturestart a couple of years ago, under producer Jon Silk’s first-look deal. But Silk is now a film executive at the Netflix streaming service, so the project has moved from Sony to Netflix. Picturestart is still involved, with Erik Feig and Jessica Switch producing for the company, alongside Dan Kagan. Hans Ritter and Pine serve as executive producers.
Peter Gaffney and Sean Tretta have written the script for Yeti, which takes place deep in the Alps, where an avalanche unleashes something primeval from the glacial ice. With no hope of rescue, a father and his daughter must fight to survive against a merciless predator that blends in with the snow.
Cast
Pine will be playing the father in that scenario, with Iona Bell (The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping) as his daughter. Ray Winstone (Damsel) is also in the cast, but there’s no word on the roles he or Sofia Boutella will be playing.
I would more excited about this project if it were one of the Jean-Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal yeti projects being unearthed and revived (possibly even as a team-up vehicle for those two now that they’ve set aside their differences). It seems we’ll never get to see Van Damme or Seagal fight yetis, but I am interested in seeing what it looks like when Chris Pine crosses paths with one.
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