Our good friend Robert Sanchez is moving into the world of producing!
It was announced today that Sanchez, Chris Patton and Kevin Munroe are gearing up to get Dark Horses' "War Monkeys" up!
Munroe, director of 2007s "TMNT", is in negotiations to direct the film.
The horror/comedy follows two janitors who, during a Christmas holiday, get trapped in an underground research facility after accidentally unleashing military-trained Rhesus monkeys.
Scripted by Cleve Nettles, the project is set to begin production in early 2009.
Asian action star Sammo Hung Kam-Bo is in negotiation to join the cast in their battle against the rabid simians.
Ruben Arizpe with partner Faith Zuckerman of Infinite Filmed Entertainment/7 Renegades Entertainment will be producing and financing the project in association with an Asian co-production entity.
"War Monkeys is probably the scariest & funniest script I've read in years." says director Kevin Munroe. "What started as simply reading a friend's work quickly turned into an obsession with seeing this movie hit the big screen. Monkeys. Guns. Explosions. As a genre freak, I couldn't ask for anything more. Except for a monkey in a dress... but I think they squeezed one of those in there too."
Producer Chris Patton was thrilled that Kevin Munroe took to the project. "Make no mistake this is a horror film in every sense of the word. Kevin has the talent and the sick sense of humor needed to pull this off. This is my fourth film with Dark Horse and probably the most challenging project I've ever put in motion."
The project will also mark the inception of a new production company topped by Patton, Munroe and partner Sanchez.
Production will be completed in the U.S. with an Asian alliance for Visual FX.
