Doctor Omega
Member: Rank 10
Hold the Dark
Director: Jeremy Saulnier (“Green Room,” Blue Ruin”)
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Alexander Skarsgard
Details: A modern master of thrillers, it came as little surprise when Jeremy Saulnier was hired to direct the third season of HBO’s “True Detective”. Before he gets to work on that though, he’s popped out this icy tale which could be even darker than his previous works and has been adapted from William Giraldi’s novel by “I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore” director Macon Blair (who also stars).
In the film, the deaths of three children in a remote Alaskan town are suspected to be by wolves. Jeffrey Wright plays Russell Core, a wolf expert hired by the parents of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate their son in the frozen wilds. He soon discovers that more is going on than meets the eye. Netflix snapped up the rights to the project from A24 and will release the film sometime in 2018.