The 'Saw' Team Unleashes 'The Collector' This Summer
Liddell Entertainment has just announced it's picked up the U.S. theatrical rights to The Collector, directed by Marcus Dunstan (from a script by Dunstan and Patrick Melton, the writing duo behind Saw IV, V and VI). The film is set to hit theaters in wide release on July 31.
According to Liddell's press release, the film stars Josh Stewart (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Criminal Minds) and Daniella Alonso (Friday Night Lights, The Hills Have Eyes 2), and "follows the story of handyman and ex-con Arkin, who aims to repay a debt to his ex-wife by robbing his new employer's country home. Unfortunately for Arkin, a far worse enemy has already laid claim to the property – and the family. As the seconds tick down to midnight, Arkin becomes a reluctant hero trapped by a masked "Collector" in a maze of lethal invention – the Spanish Inquisition as imagined by Rube Goldberg – while trying to rescue the very family he came to rob."
While this sounds mildly interesting, I'm sure Simpsons fans will agree with me that a far more entertainig film could be made about another Collector -- the alter ego of Springfield's Comic Book Guy, as featured in the Treehouse of Horror X.
