Collector 3 Gets Hopeful Update From Original Movie Director
With a few years behind him, co-writer/director Marcus Dunstan has a hopeful update for The Collected. Dunstan co-created the horror movie series with frequent writing partner Patrick Melton under the initial name The Midnight Man, which was at one point read by the producers of the Saw franchise for a potential prequel. Though they wouldn't move forward with it, Dunstan and Melton would go on to both join the long-running horror franchise as the primary writers for Saw IV through The Final Chapter and rework The Midnight Man into 2009's The Collector in between.
The Collector movies primarily center on Josh Stewart's Arkin O'Brien, a former convict desperate to pay off a debt who tries to rob a house, only to find the titular psychopath having set up gruesome traps around the house. The 2012 sequel, The Collection, sees Arkin escape from The Collector's base and subsequently hired by a wealthy man to help rescue his daughter from the horrific location. Both The Collector and The Collection received generally negative reviews from critics and though the second underperformed at the box office, a third installment has languished in development hell, but may be closer to happening.
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While speaking exclusively with Screen Rant for his new film Unhuman, Marcus Dunstan shared a hopeful update for The Collected. The co-writer/director revealed interest has renewed in the horror threequel and that plans are in the works to try and get the film back on track. See what Dunstan shared below:
«You know, I wouldn't waste anyone's hopes, especially my own, and we've got hope. Here's what's great, there are folks working on getting that back and it's just taken a long
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