{"id":88432,"date":"2016-06-22T13:05:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T12:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=88432"},"modified":"2016-06-22T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T12:06:24","slug":"jim-carrey-to-star-in-eli-roth-horror-aleister-arcane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/jim-carrey-to-star-in-eli-roth-horror-aleister-arcane\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Carrey to star in Eli Roth horror Aleister Arcane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Niles and Breehn Burns&#8217; 2004 horror comic <strong><em>Aleister Arcane<\/em><\/strong> is heading to the big screen, with none other than Jim Carrey set to star.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/news\/jim-carrey-eli-roth-aleister-arcane-1201800579\/\">Variety<\/a> reports that <strong><em>Hostel<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>The Green Inferno<\/em><\/strong>&#8216;s Eli Roth will direct Carrey in the movie, which &#8220;centers on a group of children who\u00a0befriend a bitter old man ruined and shunned by their parents. After his death, only they have the power to thwart the curse he has laid upon their town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was also announced that Roth had signed on to direct the troubled <strong><em>Death Wish<\/em><\/strong> remake, which had passed through the hands of <strong><em>Narc<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>The Grey<\/em><\/strong>&#8216;s Joe Carnahan and the<strong><em> Big Bad Wolves<\/em><\/strong> team of Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado. It&#8217;s not clear which will get going first, but <strong><em>Aleister Arcane<\/em><\/strong> has also been in the works for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Carrey will produce the film as well as star in it, and Jon Croker (<strong><em>The Woman In Black: Angel Of Death<\/em><\/strong>,<strong><em> Desert Dancer<\/em><\/strong>) will\u00a0be writing the screenplay. Carrey&#8217;s not been seen on screen since <strong><em>Dumb &amp; Dumber To<\/em><\/strong>, but he does have gritty drama<strong><em> True Crimes<\/em><\/strong> on the way, as well as Ana Lily Amirpour&#8217;s (<strong><em>A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night<\/em><\/strong>) cannibal love story <strong><em>The Bad Batch<\/em><\/strong>, which we cannot bloody wait for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FEB042468_1._SX360_QL80_TTD_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88435\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FEB042468_1._SX360_QL80_TTD_.jpg\" alt=\"FEB042468_1._SX360_QL80_TTD_\" width=\"360\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FEB042468_1._SX360_QL80_TTD_.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FEB042468_1._SX360_QL80_TTD_-300x454.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>This sounds like it could be a lot of fun, and we&#8217;re definitely due more films based on Steve Niles&#8217; work. <strong><em>30 Days Of Night<\/em><\/strong> is still one of the best modern vampire movies, so fingers crossed for this one.<\/p>\n<p>Per Variety, the comic\u00a0&#8220;focused on a local TV horror host Aleister Arcane, who\u2019s forced off the air due to the wishes of parents in an Oklahoma community. In the wake of Arcane\u2019s unplanned retirement, unexplained terror and horror beset the town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep up with the latest horror news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/4361\/s\/scifinow-issue-120\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Roth will direct Jim Carrey in the Aleister Arcane movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":88433,"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":[5201,797],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jim-Carrey.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88432"}],"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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}