Australian actress Isabel Lucas has just joined the American remake of Loft. While not a household name yet, the Pacific and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen actress has been quietly working her way toward stardom lately, picking up not only this role but parts in The Immortals and the Red Dawn remake. Expect her to be recognizable within a few years and for the Loft’s trailer to pleasantly surprise a lot of people when it drops.
Erik Von Looy’s remake of his own 2008 Belgian film follows a group of friends, played by Patrick Wilson, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller and Eric Stonestreet, as they discover a dead woman in their apartment. None of the men live there but all use it as a place to bring their mistresses without alerting their wives. After the body’s found, they attempt to solve the mystery themselves, pointing fingers and casting blame while trying to collect evidence. Isabel Lucas will play a woman who befriends the men during their friendship-shaking ordeal.
I love movies about groups of friends who get in way over their heads and begin turning on each other. Why isn’t there a catchy genre name for films like that? Good examples include Suicide Kings about five friends who kidnap Christopher Walken for ransom and Very Bad Things about five friends who accidentally kill a stripper during Jon Favreau’s bachelor party.
According to Variety, Nightmare On Elm Street screenwriter Wesley Strick is adapting the Belgian screenplay in hopes to have it ready to begin principal photography before the summer. That should put the indie in theaters sometime early next year.
