Written By: Ken HulseySources: Dread Central / Avery Guerra
Over this past weekend Armand Vaquer was kind enough to post a quick article about the remake of the 1972 Charles B. Pierce classic "The Legend of Boggy Creek."
At that time very little was known about the film, but now Dread Central has been tipped to some casting news and the name of the film's director:
To be called simply Boggy Creek, the redux stars Damon Lipari (of the upcoming Wrong Side of Town) as Dave, Jennifer Sipes (Oliver Stone's W), Melissa Carnell, Samuel Haun, Carlos Tovar, Jennifer Minar, and Julin (pictured, of the upcoming Sweatshop and Spirit Camp) as Kay. It is being directed by Brian T. Jaynes, who just wrapped on the urban thriller Hittin' the Streets with Texas Battle and Toni Trucks.
For those of you who aren't savvy to Pierce's original film, here is the 411:
In 1972 Charles Pierce, an ad salesman from Texarkana, borrowed $160,000 from a friend who owned a car dealership, to make a movie about a local legend in Arkansas, that he had heard about growing up. Armed with a hand-held camera, and the local residents, who played themselves, Pierce set out to create a pseudo-documentary about recent encounters with a Bigfoot-like creature in and around the small town of Fouke.
There has been renewed interest in "The Legend of Boggy Creek" due to a recent episode of "Monster Quest" which focused on the "Fouke Monster" aka "The Swamp Stalker of Boggy Creek". The program showed several scenes from the film and also featured reenactments of some of the events that it documented.
See Also: The Legend Of Boggy Creek (1972)(Charles B. Pierce) / "Legend of Boggy Creek" Getting The Remake Treatment
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