She’ll direct the thriller

Though she’s got a few films under her belt, Jennifer Lynch hasn’t exactly enjoyed the easiest time of it in her career. Boxing Helena didn’t exactly set the world alight, and her last film, snake-woman horror Hisss, vanished off the radar with little success and barely got released over here. While she has the thriller Rabbit awaiting release, she’s ploughing on to the next, setting up A Fall From Grace.

The script, which Lynch wrote with Eric Wilkinson, follows a detective tracking a serial killer who burns his victims along the Mississippi River. It’s partly based on Wilkinson’s trip to the abandoned Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which stretches over the river near St Louis, and which was the site for a grisly double murder.

“It has been an incredible process, writing this piece,” says Lynch in a statement, which got sucked into the Hollywood Reporter’s news hoover. “I’m not sure what demons of my own I may have been exorcising, or if I simply felt more challenged by such a darkness. But I truly feel something intense and different was at work here.”

Wilkinson also plans to produce the film and has set up backing via Apothecary Films. They’ll all be hoping this one works out a little more successfully than, say, Boxing Helena.

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Jennifer Lynch Having A Fall From Grace

A simple thank you is enough

Just before Christmas we saw the international trailer, in which the film was going by the moniker of MS One: Maximum Security. And now here’s the “domestic” trailer, where the title is Lock-Out. Back when we first reported on its development in February 2010, it was called Section Eight. But whatever the name, it stars Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace, and looks like a blast.

Grace is the daughter of president Peter Stormare, who’s on some sort of diplomatic visit to a maximum security space prison for dangerous lunatics, orbiting miles above the Earth. Unluckily for her, she’s the catalyst for a mass break-out, despite the fortress’ whole suposed “impregnable” thing. And the only man who can get her to safety? Pearce’s wise-ass badass Snake Plissken Snow, that’s who.

“Don’t get me wrong,” he says. “It’s a dream vacation. I go into space, I get inside the maximum security nuthouse, get past all the psychos, save the president’s daughter if she’s not dead already… I’m thrilled that you would think of me.”

The last clip was big on the action inside the prison, but this one gives more of a glimpse of the carnage outside, with space battles and a destructive-looking bike / car freeway chase.