Deadline is reporting that Lionsgate is close to a distribution deal with MGM that could mean a release date for Joss Whedon’s long completed horror film, CABIN IN THE WOODS.
CABIN was written by Drew Goddard (CLOVERFIELD) and Joss Whedon (Everything splendid and rad and also BUFFY) with Goddard directing a cast that included Richard Jenkins (SIX FEET UNDER), Bradley Whittford (WEST WING), Chris Hemsworth (THOR) and Whedon alums Fran Kranz, Amy Acker, and Tom Lenk.
The film is reportedly a Whedonized take on the “kids in a cabin” trope (as you may have surmised from the poster above) and may involve some monster element according to the adorable (when shes not an ancient demon), Amy Acker. Actual or more substantive plot details have been kept a secret under threat of evisceration.
You’ll notice the February 5, 2010 release date on the poster and shout at the very top of your lungs “Fallacy!” but Deadline writer Mike Fleming speaks on the long, windy road CABIN has taken to get to this point. Testify!
It was once slated to be released by MGM on Oct. 23, 2009, but was pulled back because it was going to be converted to 3D. Then, everything froze at MGM because of the strangling debt load, and The Cabin in the Woods was among several pictures that languished.
While the deal with Lionsgate is coming together there is still, as of now no set release date but at least horror fans and Whedonites alike can look forward to a day, perhaps soon, when Joss Whedon at long last shakes the last vestiges of reticence and kills a main character on screen.
