“When I finish in a couple of months, the studios will get together for a bidding war or an intervention,” Joss Whedon told a Comic Con audience Friday.
Whedon, who wrote and directed the two highest-grossing Marvel movies ever, says his latest screenplay is:
1) Historical fiction; and
2) Not an adaptation.
Whedon said the project drew at least some inspiration from director Nicolas Lopez’ 2012 Chilean thriller “Aftershock,” starring Eli Roth as an American caught with locals in a devastating South American earthquake. Lopez and Roth co-wrote the movie, based on actual events that followed the 8.8 earthquake that stuck Chile in 2010. It depicts dismemberment, decapitation and escaped prisoners who embark on a rampage of rape and slaughter.
“It’s very disturbing,” allowed Whedon.
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