The Cabin in the Woods: FEARnet Comic-Con 2008
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As this site gears up for production on The Cabin in the Woods to get underway, we’re gradually putting some things together to make it easier to follow developments. To wit: You can now follow on Twitter or subscribe via email. This is in addition to the previously-mentioned unofficial Facebook group which we launched a couple of weeks back.
It should be noted that Twitter functionality currently should be considered experimental, since not all plugins appear to work correctly.
Crewing Up
We might not yet know all that much about pre-production on The Cabin in the Woods, but we’ve confirmed that its IMDb listing is correct that one Jaime Harlan is involved in the film’s casting.
Harlan’s background includes casting assistant stints on Alias and Lost, as well as Ghost Rider and Meet Dave.
It isn’t listed on her IMDb page, but Harlan also portrayed Jamie Lascano, a background character in Cloverfield and a slightly more prominent character in the film’s pre-release viral marketing campaign.
Cloverfield, of course, was written by Drew Goddard, co-writer and director of The Cabin in the Woods.
Site Tinkering Underway
Very little of it should be especially obvious to you along the way, but in case anyone encounters anything bizarre, it likely will be because I’m doing some work on the site. Mostly cosmetic, some functional. The most apparent addition is the new Contact This Site page, which is linked site-wide both at the top and the bottom. Beyond that, it’s mostly a matter of adding some things to the back end to make features such as the Press Mentions page easier to maintain.
Update: Before things get underway with the film itself, and therefore things start piling up here, I’ve gone back and started adding categories to the posts here. There’s a few items which are not yet categorized, but most of them should be assigned now. I’ll get an actual category list into the footer at some point in the next few days.
The Competition
Over at FEARNet there’s an interview with the director of Saw VI, which as we recently saw (no pun intended) has been given the same release date as The Cabin in the Woods.
So your film’s release date – October 23 – is the same as another anticipated horror film – Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods… any thoughts about the competition?
I saw that. There was an article that mentioned that. I’m not sure how much competition that will cause. But it’s interesting that people don’t see Saw as such a threat to have the same opening day. [Laughs.]Is that a good or a bad thing?
It could be a bad thing, but I’m not concerned. I think we’ll stomp ‘em still. [Laughs.]
Of course, he has it backwards. The Cabin in the Woods received its October 23 release date three months ago, when many people assumed that Saw VI would be released one week later.
So it makes no sense to say that “it’s interesting that people don’t see Saw as such a threat to have the same opening day”, because we don’t yet know what MGM will do now that Saw VI has been given the same release date.
Update: There’s a running thread over on WHEDONesque discussing the competition.
Facebook Group
An unofficial Facebook group now exists for The Cabin in the Woods, for anyone so inclined.
Cabin Loses Its Head Start
When news dropped of the October 23 release date for The Cabin in the Woods, word seemed to be that it might have been in order to give it a one-week head start on Saw VI, expected to be released the day before Halloween. But not so much. Saw VI has been given a release date of (yes) October 23. One suspects that perhaps MGM might consider moving Cabin.
Domain Registered
Back in early September, it appears that MGM registered a domain for The Cabin in the Woods, although as of this writing it’s not yet been assigned an IP address and so doesn’t actually exist online yet.
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