New THE COLLECTOR Movie THE COLLECTED Has Been Abandoned
Mike Sprague
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Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton have just revealed that The Collector 3 aka The Collected has been abandoned. Dunstan explains they only shot for 8 days before COVID-19 shut production down. And now the producer has stopped answering their phone calls. The film hasn’t even shot new footage in two years.
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Dunstan tells The Thing With Two Heads podcast: “Well, we shot for eight days, and then it was shut down. I invested in this thing, I’d like to know what’s happening. We stopped hearing from anybody with the production. I know most of the props I brought there have been stolen. I would think that anybody else who invested in this movie that thinks that it’s happening, wouldn’t they like to know what’s happening? .. All calls and emails have gone unanswered. When you can’t get anyone on the phone and you don’t hear anything, at this point, I’m really p*ssed off.“
Melton adds: “We actually stopped shooting in 2019. That was two years ago, and we only shot eight days, so [there’s only been] very, very little shot. Anything that’s been released has been from that time period, and there are no plans to start shooting it. We haven’t talked to anyone who was in the production… we’d love to finish it, but, I don’t know. We’re not the producers, so we don’t know.“
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Dunstan says: “It was all avoidable, completely avoidable, that’s what drives me nuts. I didn’t invest ten years getting this opportunity, facilitating it, getting it together, pre-writing three different versions of this thing, just to be ignored. That wasn’t my goal. And I’m assuming that people who invested capital in this thing are probably wondering, ‘Hey, where’s our movie?’ Unfortunately, we gotta wait ’til Thor’s honesty hammer comes down and smacks them right.”
Even with eight days in the can, Melton says they’d still have to start back from scratch. So it looks like The Collected is dead. We’ll let you know when we hear more.
Dunstan and Melton co-wrote The Collected. It followed the events of The Collector and The Collection. Series stars Josh Stewart and also Emma Fitzpatrick were returning. Tom Atkins (Halloween III) was in there too with Randy Havens (Godzilla: King of the Monsters), Dot-Marie Jones (3 From Hell), and also Navi Rawat (Feast).
The Collection centered on a young woman who sneaks out of her house one night to attend an exclusive party, unaware of the horror that awaits her. A sick criminal, The Collector also crashes the party in search of fresh victims. A mercenary friend of her father then forces Arkin to come along on a mission to free her.
How fucking bummed are you? Do you think this is a cruel delayed April Fools joke? I hope so. Let us know what you think below or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! You can also hit me up over on Twitter @MikeSpregg325.
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