Lionsgate has announced that they’ve picked up the worldwide rights to Burst 3D from director Neil Marshall of Dog Soldiers, Descent and Doomsday fame. The three dimensional opus will follow a group of stranded travellers who meet during a blizzard and are stalked by a malevolent force that makes people spontaneously combust.
Yes, we think that sounds a bit silly too, but then so does woman going into a cave and get attacked by mutant albinos, but The Decent worked out pretty well.
The movie will be made through Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures, and the Spider-man filmmaker will produce.
Marshall will move onto Burst when he finishes his on his Picts vs. Romans epic, Centurion, although we’re not sure what this means for Drive, his stuntman movie that has Hugh Jackman attached to star. That movie was announced last year and was supposed to start shooting them as well, but the last we heard had been pushed back indefinitely. His films Eagle’s Next and Sacrilege also seem to be slightly trapped in development hell.