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Haters
Status: Rumored
GDT's Role: Producer
Summary
From JoBlo.com:
Day after tedious day, Danny toils away at the government agency that enforces parking tickets. After eight hours of being yelled at by his supervisor and angry motorists, he goes home to his exhausted wife and three annoying children. On the weekends he visits his father-in-law, a cold and argumentative man on the other side of town. Danny is constantly working to make ends meet, and possibly catch a few moments in front of the TV, but mostly he is struggling to keep his sanity.
Slowly, strange things start happening around him. First he witnesses a man attacking an old woman on the street. Then in the middle of a concert, the lead singer of his favorite band stops playing and beats his drummer with a guitar. Not to mention the "bar fight" and "car accident" that turn ugly—and deadly—while Danny is out with his family.
These "haters" are cropping up everywhere, suddenly and viciously killing friends, family, and complete strangers. No one knows why this is happening, but it occurs often and without a hint of warning. And it seems that it could happen to anyone – your spouse, your child, even you could be the next hater. One moment you're kissing your wife goodnight, and the next you're a killer.
Soon there is no one to trust in a city gone mad with fear and violence, and Danny's previously mundane life is caught in the middle.
Cast and Crew
Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
Writing Credits:
Glen Mazzara (screenplay)
David Moody (novel)
What GDT Had To Say
From ShockTillYouDrop.com, 12-Nov-2008
"I was pursuing very few people [to direct]," admits Del Toro, again on producing duties for this project. "I only try to produce people that I admire because then it's very easy to let them do what they want. If you produce people you have doubts about, you shouldn't produce them. I had the distinct displeasure of being produced on Mimic the wrong way. I would try to never do that to anyone."
In spite of the rather old school aesthetic Bayona brought to Orphanage, Del Toro felt he was a perfect fit for this film which goes for the throat. "What is funny is when we talked about Hater and I told him what the final scene will be - it's an incredibly movie final scene that's not in the book - he said, I want to do it. Because it's a very contemporary movie, perhaps less so after the election, because I feel a huge breath of relief, but it's becoming very easy to hate. And what I love about the premise is that there is a righteousness. It's not a viral situation, not a contagion, it's a situation of a social disease. That we can road rage into murdering someone at any second. That it's a social epidemic is what attracted me. It's not a zombie movie. The people that kill the people can rationalize why they did it. That's what is scary about it."
Update 21-MAY-2008
From Variety: Universal Pictures has acquired "Hater," David Moody's debut novel, to be released February 17, 2009. The adaptation will be produced by Mark Johnson and Guillermo del Toro.
The thriller is about an epidemic of random violence in which ordinary people strike lethally without warning or remorse. Book will be adapted for the screen by Glen Mazzara (FX's "The Shield").
"What I loved about 'Hater' is it recognizes the reality that we live in, where it is incredibly easy to polarize, to hate for gender, race, age," del Toro said. HATER is based on a noved by David Moody.
Mark Johnson is best known recently for his role as producer on the Chronicles of Narnia films. He is also an Oscar winner, having produced Best Picture Academy Award winners Bugsy and Rain Man.
10-Oct-2008 - Bayona to direct HATER
20-Dec-2007 - GDT To Produce "Haters"
12-Dec-2007 - GDT May Direct "Haters"
24-Aug-2009 - EXCL: Producer Offers HATER Update
Shocktillyoudrop.com (submitted by Parker)
08-Feb-2009 - Halesowen author wins Hollwood movie deal and linking up with Guillermo Del Toro
SundayMercury.net (submitted by Parker)
29-Jan-2009 - First chapter from David Moody’s HATER
Fangoria (submitted by Parker)
21-May-2008 - Universal, del Toro love 'Hater'
Variety (submitted by Parker)
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