Leigh Whannell’s New Blumhouse Sci-Fi Horror Film Rated R for “Strong Violence, Grisly Images, and Language”
Mike Sprague
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A while back we brought you guys news on Saw and Insidious screenwriter Leigh Whannell’s new feature as director. It was called Stem but now it’s called Upgrade.
Whannell just wrote and directed the film featuring Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus, The Invitation) and today we have word that the flick has scored an R-rating from the MPAA for “strong violence, grisly images, and language.”
Sounds about right to me as Whannell has never been one to shy away from blood and gore. Oh, wait. He kinda has… Insidious and Dead Silence are relatively bloodless, and hell, the original Saw isn’t even as gory as people may remember.
I think this will be cool to see Whannell cut loose again like he did on some of those Saw sequels. Are you excited to check out the film this summer? Let us know below!
Upgrade is written and directed by Leigh Whannell (Insidious) and stars Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus), Betty Gabriel (Get Out), Harrison Gilbertson, Simon Maiden, and Benedict Hardie. Jason Blum produces along with Kylie du Fresne, and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, while Charles Layton, Rosemary Blight, and Ben Grant are executive producers.
The film premieres at SXSW March 10 and then Blumhouse will release the film under its Blumhouse Tilt banner June 1, 2018.
Synopsis:
Grey Trace is a technophobe in a utopian near-future when computers control nearly everything – from cars to crime-surveillance – who is paralyzed in a freak mugging. But when a billionaire technologist offers him an experimental paralysis cure – an implanted computer chip called STEM – Grey finds that the chip has a voice and a mind of its own.
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