Ellie Kemper has joined the cast of Columbia Pictures' bigscreen reboot of "21 Jump Street."According to Variety, the cast includes Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, Rob Riggle, Jake Johnson, Dave Franco, Johnny Simmons, Dakota Johnson and DeRay Davis. Tatum and Hill are also executive producing. The film is based on the 1980s Fox TV series that focused on young undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools and colleges. Johnny Depp, who starred in the original series, will make a brief cameo.Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are directing from a script by Michael Bacall.Neal H. Moritz will produce. Stephen J. Cannell, who co-created and executive produced the original series, will receive a posthumous producing credit.Kemper can be...
- 6/16/2011
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
It seems like certain low budget filmmakers just flip through their serial killer trading cards looking for inspiration. I've no qualms about watching a documentary that deals with specific serial killers from a just-the-facts analytical point-of-view or even a well-made docudrama like Helter Skelter or Zodiac, but these DVD releases of late have just been low rent exploitation flicks of questionable taste and quality. This November necrophiliac serial killer Ed Kemper gets his turn.
"Co-ed killer" Edmund Kemper committed his first murders as a teenager in 1964 when he gunned down his grandparents, a crime for which he spent several years in a state mental hospital before convincing doctors he was sane. His killing spree resumed for a year beginning in mid-1972 with the brutal murders of six female hitchhikers; afterwards dissecting their corpses and performing necrophilia. His lifelong struggle with his abusive mother came to end in 1973 when he beat...
"Co-ed killer" Edmund Kemper committed his first murders as a teenager in 1964 when he gunned down his grandparents, a crime for which he spent several years in a state mental hospital before convincing doctors he was sane. His killing spree resumed for a year beginning in mid-1972 with the brutal murders of six female hitchhikers; afterwards dissecting their corpses and performing necrophilia. His lifelong struggle with his abusive mother came to end in 1973 when he beat...
- 9/7/2008
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
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