Being the eternal sucker for all things related to the fantasy / sci-fi genre, this one has caught my attention. A brand new project is about to go into development that has caught my eye. The project is called “The Fourth Horseman”. The guys over at Movieweb give us the following:
Intrepid Pictures has acquired the supernatural thriller The Fourth Horseman, written by Marshall Uzzle and Perry Fair, according to Variety. The writing team of F. Paul Benz and Steve Tomlin (“Snow Blind”) will rewrite the script.
The Fourth Horseman centers on a young priest’s battle to thwart the rise of the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, when three of the horsemen — War, Pestilence and Famine — await the birth of their fourth brother so they can fulfill their destiny and bring about the end of times.
Adding the supernatural to the fantasy genre mixed with real world mythology is a cool mix that can be easily messed up and soured. Still, the potential for something extremely good lay in there too. Seeing 3 horsemen galavanting around causing mayhem and destruction, awaiting their fourth brother so that they can bring about the end of the world has some juicy potential.
It will be interesting to see if this “young priest” is cast as a heroic faithful… or if it’ll do the standard Hollywood thing where he’s a priest who is an asshole, or only a good guy because he’s no longer a real priest.
