Update finds director and Last Crusade actress
The 1972 film The Asphyx is the next film on the remake chopping block.
Matthew McGuchan is writing and directing for Black & Blue Films; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade‘s Alison Doody is locked to star. According to Screen Daily, production begins next June in London.
Peter Newbrook’s original Asphyx was a period piece about a scientists whose experimentation with the “asphyx,” or spirit of death, grants him immortality. Further research only brings death to those he loves. Robert Stephens starred in the leading role.
Black & Blue Films is behind the vampire gangster film Dead Cert which we introduced you to this week.
Source: Screen Daily
