{"id":101834,"date":"2018-03-08T00:27:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=101834"},"modified":"2018-03-08T00:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:27:10","slug":"elizabeth-banks-cast-in-untitled-james-gunn-horror-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/elizabeth-banks-cast-in-untitled-james-gunn-horror-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Banks cast in untitled James Gunn horror film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Banks has been cast in James Gunn&#8217;s upcoming untitled horror film. It will be the first project the pair has collaborated on since\u00a0<em><strong>Slither\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The H Collective is financing the film, while Gunn and his company Troll Court Entertainment are producing. David Yarovesky (<em><strong>The Hive<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0is set to direct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elizabeth and I have been on the same artistic page since we first met when she auditioned for\u00a0<em><strong>Slither<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0back in 2005,&#8221; said Gunn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She\u2019s since remained one of my best friends in the world, and I\u2019ve been fighting tooth and nail to work with her again. She\u2019s the perfect partner to Yarvo, the H Collective and myself in creating this very special project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If there are any film fans alive still unfamiliar with either of them, Banks is\u00a0 known for her roles in the likes of\u00a0<em><strong>Wet Hot American Summer<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Pitch Perfect<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0<em><strong>The Hunger Games<\/strong><\/em>, while Gunn directed Marvel&#8217;s hit\u00a0<em><strong>Guardians Of The Galaxy\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>films.<\/p>\n<p>Production on the untitled horror film is set to start this spring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get all the latest horror news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slither&#8217;s Elizabeth Banks and James Gunn are reuniting for a new horror film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":101835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[6023,2775],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/elizabeth-banks-gi.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}