Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The Stepfather

7/2/09 – SCI FI Wire reported that Dylan Walsh is playing the title character in The Stepfather, the upcoming horror film that reboots a cult classic from 1987.  Much like the original the new movie centers on a sociopathic killer who blends into broken families. When the new wife and kids inevitably disappoint him, he slaughters them and moves on to the next unsuspecting household.  The psychotic patriarch's current target is newly single Susan (Sela Ward). Susan's son from her first marriage, Michael, is played by Penn Badgley. In the original film, everything was seen through the eyes of a stepdaughter. For the remake, the role was altered to a male child. Amber Heard, meanwhile, brings the beauty as Michael's 17-year-old girlfriend, Kelly, who also catches the wandering eye of Walsh's David.  So what's the difference between Nip/Tuck's surgeon Sean McNamara and the deadly David Harris? "Bigger knives," Walsh said. "I am having so much fun doing this, because in Nip/Tuck you are never going to portray what that guy is. But here, it's like, in a moment, you can go back and forth between these two, the genre film, and then the part of it that is just this family story. It's fun. It's liberating."  Sony's Screen Gems is betting audiences won't steer clear when The Stepfather opens nationwide on Oct. 16.

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