{"id":290,"date":"2008-02-04T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=290"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:59:14","slug":"englund-to-direct-gothic-horror-the-vij","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/04\/englund-to-direct-gothic-horror-the-vij\/","title":{"rendered":"Englund To Direct Gothic Horror THE VIJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no need to feel too upset that Robert Englund won&#8217;t be back for Platinum Dunes&#8217; revamp of the <strong>Nightmare On Elm Street<\/strong> franchise that we reported on last week. The former Freddy Kruger is turning his eye to directing, taking charge of the dark Gothic fantasy <strong>The Vij<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110714020345\/http:\/\/www.variety.com:80\/article\/VR1117980125?refCatId=13\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a> reported today.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a novel by Russian writer Nikolaj Gogol, the movie will tell the story of a young priest who is led into temptation and sin by an evil genie. The film is being produced by the Rome-based company ReDark, in association with Canada\u2019s Remstar and Spain\u2019s Canonigo Films.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Lee, another horror film icon, is set to star, with Englund also taking a role in the film.<\/p>\n<p>Filming is set to begin in April in the Lazio region of Italy with the uninhabited medieval village of Civita di Bagnoregio serving as one of the production&#8217;s prime filming locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">There&#8217;s no need to feel too upset that Robert Englund won&#8217;t be back for Platinum Dunes&#8217; revamp of the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise that we reported on last week. The former Freddy Kruger is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/04\/englund-to-direct-gothic-horror-the-vij\/\" title=\"Englund To Direct Gothic Horror THE VIJ\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3,57,56],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-coming-soon","8":"tag-directors","9":"tag-horror"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}