One of the first movies to film during the early days of the pandemic back in 2020, Kurt Wimmer‘s new take on Stephen King‘s Children of the Corn has seemingly dropped off the radar completely in recent months, with no release date set at this time.
It’s been damn near an entire year since we last heard a peep about the movie, which was apparently released in just two locations in Sarasota, Florida back in 2020. It’s the eleventh overall installment in the long-running Children of the Corn franchise, and whenever it’s released, it’ll be the first movie since John Gulager’s Children of the Corn: Runaway in 2018.
Kurt Wimmer, for those who don’t recognize his name, is the director of films including the Christian Bale-starring Equilibrium and the Milla Jovovich-starring Ultraviolet. Children of the Corn is his first movie since 2006, though he did more recently write films include Law Abiding Citizen, Salt, Total Recall, and Point Break, as well as the 2020 horror movie Spell.
In Wimmer’s movie, which is said to have very little to do with King’s novel, “A psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won’t go along with the plan is the town’s only hope of survival.”
Here’s another plot synopsis we’ve found: “A smart teenager finds herself trapped in a horrific plot by the young children in her town to murder all their parents and ‘heal the corn.’”
The new film’s cast includes Elena Kampouris (Before I Fall), Kate Moyer (“When Hope Calls”), Callan Mulvey (Avengers: Endgame) and Bruce Spence (The Road Warrior).
While we wait for more – we’re digging, we promise – check out some images below.
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