Jaume sculpting remake of 'Wax'
'Wax' figure
Feb 3, 2004
Commercial director Jaume has been given the keys to Dark Castle Entertainment's "House of Wax" for Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures. Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis and Susan Levin are producing.
Jaume -- a native of Barcelona, Spain, whose full name is Jaume Collet-Serra -- is known for commercials filled with black humor. A 7UP spot of his featured a mermaid who recovered a bottle of the soft drink for a fisherman, who then captures her and puts her on display. An anti-tobacco commercial for the Arizona Department of Health Services was set in a macabre funhouse that had a youth getting a hole drilled in his throat. He also helmed spots for PlayStation, Budweiser and MasterCard.
"Wax" is a remake of the 1953 classic horror film "House of Wax 3-D," which starred Vincent Price and was directed by Andre de Toth. That Warners picture centered on a mad professor who used human bodies covered with wax in his wax museum. The new version, to be filmed in 2-D, will be a marked departure from the original but will retain the gruesome "human bodies in wax" element. The screenplay is by Chad and Carey Hayes.
The studio is eyeing a November release and will quickly cast the picture.
Polly Cohen is the Warners production exec on the project, while Kristin Lowe is the creative exec.
Jaume is repped by CAA.
Jaume -- a native of Barcelona, Spain, whose full name is Jaume Collet-Serra -- is known for commercials filled with black humor. A 7UP spot of his featured a mermaid who recovered a bottle of the soft drink for a fisherman, who then captures her and puts her on display. An anti-tobacco commercial for the Arizona Department of Health Services was set in a macabre funhouse that had a youth getting a hole drilled in his throat. He also helmed spots for PlayStation, Budweiser and MasterCard.
"Wax" is a remake of the 1953 classic horror film "House of Wax 3-D," which starred Vincent Price and was directed by Andre de Toth. That Warners picture centered on a mad professor who used human bodies covered with wax in his wax museum. The new version, to be filmed in 2-D, will be a marked departure from the original but will retain the gruesome "human bodies in wax" element. The screenplay is by Chad and Carey Hayes.
The studio is eyeing a November release and will quickly cast the picture.
Polly Cohen is the Warners production exec on the project, while Kristin Lowe is the creative exec.
Jaume is repped by CAA.
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