*Neither the final nor the most thrilling chapter.

Additional shooting of The Eye

One more note on that Eye remake, particularly relevant in light of recently mentioning the Pang brothers not being involved in the Messengers reshoots. A Pang-related curse?

Lionsgate asked for two weeks of reshoots on The Eye, but ominously chose not to invite David Moreau and Xavier Palud back, opting instead to retain the services of Wes Craven's sometimes editor and affiliate Patrick Lussier, who may sound French, but seems to be Canadian, residing in Los Angeles.

Though I posted a while ago about Lussier's upcoming White Noise 2: The Light, his sequel-heavy repertoire should merit him at least a mention by name on this blog, if not a post of his own. White Noise 2 is Lussier's fifth film as director, and fourth sequel.

Lussier's feature debut was a sequel: 2000's straight-to-video Prophecy 3: The Ascent.* His second film was an original, or at least "an original," the Wes Craven exec-produced Dracula 2000. Lussier shares a story credit with Joel Soisson, so there's no telling which of them came up with the bizarre, inspired plot twist that sets Dracula 2000 apart from its crummy modern vampire brethren. I've never been able to tell whether it's genius or ludicrous, but I still remember it clearly seven years later. In fact, it's the only thing I remember about the movie, which makes it significantly more memorable than a cast including Gerard Butler, Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Danny Masterson, Omar Epps, Jeri Ryan, Shane West, and Nathan Fillion.

Dracula 2000 opened poorly but struggled to a domestic total about $5 million past its $28m budget, which means Lussier's third and fourth films were Dracula II: Ascension (cf. Prophecy 3: The Ascent) and Dracula III: Legacy. All I can tell you about Wes Craven Presents Dracula II: Ascension is that Jason Scott Lee plays Father Uffizi.

Along those lines, I can also report that Wes Craven Presents Dracula III: Legacy offers Roy Scheider as Cardinal Siqueros.

*A special post on my favorite thing about this film tomorrow.