Shadows in the Palace Shadows in the Palace
Aug
21
2008

Aaron Woodley All Set To Slay Monsters.

Posted by Todd Brown at 4:05pm.

Posted in Film News , Action, Horror, USA & Canada.

While I’m not entirely certain what the status of Aaron Woodley’s Drone - the film being produced by Woodley’s famous uncle, David Cronenberg - is, I do know this:  Woodley is one very busy man.  Tennessee has wrapped up, the Toronto Stories anthology project is complete and ready to premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and he’s already got another feature in development:  League of Monster Slayers.  Wondering where all the Goonies have gone?  Missing the Monster Squad?  It looks like Woodley is preparing to scratch that particular itch:

Orphaned twin siblings LILLY (10) and SEBASTIAN (10), live at their wealthy uncle - MR. BLACKBURN’s estate. The castle-like house is run by the cold and stern cook, MRS. KIND (60), the odd groundskeeper SAMUEL (50’s), and mysterious, mute maid CAMILLE (60s). The orphans are alone, all their previous nannies have quit, exhausted by the children’s overactive imaginations, discounting their wild stories that the house is haunted and that monsters are lurking.

Everything changes with the arrival of their new nanny, MADELINE THATCHER (29), a prim and proper sort who occupies them with intense schooling each day. But Madeline is more than she at first appears. In fact, the children quickly discover that their new nanny has trained in the dark arts since her father was killed by a werewolf when she was just 10. With vengeance she hunted the werewolf down and killed it with a silver bullet. Part detective, part warrior, Madeline is on business - undercover. Someone is up to no good at this house and she’s there to put an end to it. The children agree to keep Madeline’s identity under wraps, on the condition that she teaches them everything she knows about fighting monsters.

They name their newly formed alliance the “League of Monster Slayers” (L.M.S. being an acronym for Lilly, Madeline, Sebastian), and begin to uncover the dreaded secrets of the grand estate by doing battle with an onslaught of monsters and confronting an evil ghost constructing a portal to hell.

Ummm ... yes, please?

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Reader Comments

  1. Ard Vijn 08/22/2008 @ 2:24am

    That synopsis sounds killer!

    Mind you, this could be anything from marvellous to dreadful, but that set-up does indeed tickle me in all the right places.

  2. Kurt Halfyard 08/22/2008 @ 9:40am

    As usual, I encourage anyone and everyone to seek out and watch Rhinoceros Eyes, which should add a fair bit of faith that Woodley can pull something like this off.

    I’ll have to get a status update from him on DRONE at TIFF this year.

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