I missed this from last week or so, but some word about Slither writer-director James Gunn’s The Belcoo Experiment apparently leaked (oozed?) out at Comic-Con recently. On his eponymous (and frequently hilariously profane) site, Gunn talks a good bit about the movie, describing it thusly:

“It’s a script I wrote on spec [and] an ultra-violent thriller with a lot
of action. It has to do with a group of 83 American expatriates who
work in a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil. At the beginning of what is at
first a regular, boring day, walls close up around the building,
trapping them inside. A voice emits over the speaker system, forcing
them through a series of murderous moral decisions.”

Sounds a bit like Chris Gorak’s forthcoming Right at Your Door, but writ large, and with spicy pinches of Saw, Entombed and maybe Turistas thrown in for good measure. Still, Gunn says he’s not sure The Belcoo Experiment will in fact be his next directing project. “The acting in the film is heavy, there is a large cast, and we need to
find actors who meet the needs of myself, my producers, and Universal/Rogue,” he writes.
“A lot of things need to fall into place for the casting to be perfect,
and I don’t want to do the film until that’s the case.”