MastersFX Creature Shop Strikes Deal With Arcana Entertainment To Produce Genre Films Based on Arcana’s Characters (Exclusive)

thewrap.com:

MastersFX creature shop and Arcana, a comic and graphic novels publisher as well as an animation and live action studio, have signed a new multipicture deal to create and produce genre feature films based on Arcana’s vast library of characters and IP, the companies announced on Monday.Currently Arcana and MastersFX are in development on “American Wasteland,” the second of their planned joint venture films and based on an Arcana graphic novel property, the companies revealed to TheWrap via email. “American Wasteland” tells the story of truck driver Cletus McCoy trying to save his mother from a vampire apocalypse. “Cletus will have to truck his way through an emerging nation of bloodthirsty monsters hell-bent on making him supper.

Guns, guts, and a boy named Sumbitch are our hero’s only hope,” reads an Arcana plot description.The Canadian company’s first project resulting from the deal, the “Corrective Measures,” premieres on Tubi on April 29.

That film, which stars Bruce Willis as “The Lobe,” is set in San Tiburon, a maximum security prison housing “the world’s most treacherous superpowered criminals,” according to a statement.

The film — one of the last movies made by Willis before announcing his decision to retire from acting after a diagnosis of aphasia — was directed and produced by Arcana founder Sean Patrick O’Reilly (“Howard Lovecraft,” “The Kingdom of Madness”) and co-stars Michael Rooker (“The Walking Dead,: Guardians of the Galaxy”).