Neil Marshall, who is best known as the director ofDog Soldiers,Hellboy,and episodes of the HBO fantasy drama seriesGame of Thrones, has lined up his next project and its lead star. According to Variety, the British filmmaker is taking the reins on a new high-concept survival thriller titledGunn,which is expected to mix action and horror against the backdrop of a secluded offshore platform.House of the DragonandOutlanderactorGraham McTavishis set to star in the upcoming movie, though his role remains undisclosed for now.
Not much is known aboutGunnat this time, other than it having a screenplay written by Doug Rao, who recently stepped out to make his feature film directorial debut with the 2024 psychological thrillerDirty Boy, also starring McTavish in one of the movie’s lead roles. The script forGunnis already lauded as it won the Gold Prize in the thriller/horror category at the prestigious PAGE Screenwriting Awards in 2023 for its story, which centers around “the savage isolation of a North Sea oil rig overtaken by a pagan sect.”
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Gunnis currently being packaged in the run-up to the Cannes Film Market with sales discussions also underway ahead of cameras rolling later this year. Production is slated to take place in the U.K. and Bulgaria, with Rao producing the survival thriller alongside Mark Myers and John Hermann. Marshall will be translating the project’s award-winning script into a visual narrative, which fans of his earlier work may hope includes shadings of some of his original cult classics, such asDog SoldiersandThe Descent.
‘Dog Soldiers 2’ Is Not Likely to Happen
Marshall directingGunnfurther signals thatDog Soldiers 2is on the back-burner, if not snubbed altogether. A sequel to the 2002 werewolf thriller has long been in the works, but Marshall took to social media in November to share someheartbreaking news about its developmentafter six years of trying to work out a deal that would bring the movie to the big screen. He did share some moonlight at the end of the tunnel though, as he revealed that he was now working onanother action horror outing involving lycanthropes.
Dog Soldierswas generally well-received by critics, who praised the movie for putting a unique spin on the horror flick formula, with a plot that centers around a military group during a routine nighttime training mission in the Scottish Highlands, but things go awry when they find themselves besieged by a pack of werewolves. The film wasinitially planned as a trilogy, but Marshall struggled to get the follow-up off the ground and has seemingly since diverted his attention to being the leader of another pack of projects.
