What next for
Wanted and
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter director Timur Bekmambetov? That's a good question, actually, the director-producer maintaining an active slate in both roles in both Hollywood and Russia but one thing he's got brewing on the production side is horror-comedy
Squirrels.
When
a young man's estranged father is killed under suspicious
circumstances, he returns home for the first time in years to get to the
bottom of the mystery.
Hoping to uncover some logical explanation, he instead finds his mom's
sleazy new boyfriend, a natural gas company buying up the town, an angry
female sheriff who happens to be his ex-girlfriend, and an army of
flesh-eating squirrels hellbent on destroying everything in their path
due to an erosion of their food chain as a result of environmental
destruction by the gas company.
Though there is no word yet on who will direct or star, Bekmambetov's Bazalev's production company have produced a fabulous promo reel for the project which was apparently released by sales company Red Sea Media (whose official site currently appears to be squatted upon by a porn site) and
is now spreading online in Russia. Check it out - all the dialogue is in English - below.