A trailer dropped for the new thriller The Most Dangerous Game. It is a remake of the classic film of the same name from 1932.
The Most Dangerous Game was first announced last November and will be co-produced by prominent home video label Mill Creek Entertainment. The company is known as a DVD distributor that in recent years signed major distributing deals with Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures, and this will be its first time co-producing an original feature film.
The new trailer for The Most Dangerous Game shows a father and son shipwrecked on a mysterious island. The island, as it turns out, is owned by a Baron with a passion for big game hunting who allows the family to live with him temporarily. However, they soon discover that the Baron is especially obsessed with hunting what he calls the most dangerous game: humans.
The cast includes Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club, Empire), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers), Tom Berenger (Platoon), Oscar-nominated Bruce Dern (Nebraska, The Hateful Eight, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), and Chris Tamburello (MTV’s The Challenge). The role of director is filled by Justin Lee, who recently completed Final Kill (2020), an action thriller starring Danny Trejo. Lee also penned the screenplay based on the original source material, a 1924 short story by Richard Connell.
Mill Creek's production will be a remake of the 1932 film produced by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper, the year before the team was to direct King Kong. The original short story itself entered the public domain in the U.S. in 2020, though it has been adapted multiple times before and the concept of man hunting man has been explored in several unrelated projects, both on the big screen and on television.
Blumhouse Productions and Universal Pictures recently tried their own hand at an adaptation of Connell’s story with 2020's The Hunt. Their version added a satirical spin, but the overtly political nature of the movie was controversial, and it ultimately received largely negative reviews. Mill Creek's The Most Dangerous Game, however, appears to be a more literal adaptation of the classic story, based on what this short trailer reveals.
The Most Dangerous Game releases in theaters and on streaming on August 5, 2022.
Source: Mill Creek Entertainment