Producer Lucas Foster says that Equilibrium and Ultraviolet director Kurt Wimmer’s “reimagining” of Stephen King’s Children of the Corn has “almost nothing to do with” director Fritz Kiersch’s 1984 movie.

He says that while the movie is based on the same classic King short story, “We went back to the story and free-associated from there.”

Kurt Wimmer’s “reimagining” of Stephen King’s Children of the Corn has wrapped shooting in Australia during coronavirus. And today, the producers revealed the previously undisclosed cast of young actors.

Variety reports the new cast includes Elena Kampouris (Before I Fall) and Kate Moyer (When Hope Calls), Callan Mulvey (Avengers: Endgame), and Bruce Spence (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King).

Kurt Wimmer’s Children of the Corn remake wraps production. After making headlines last month for continuing to film on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia despite the COVID-19 lockdown laws imposed throughout the country, producer Lucas Foster has confirmed that production has officially wrapped on director Kurt Wimmer’s upcoming remake of the 1984 horror film Children of the Corn.

Last month, we caught word that EQUILIBRIUM director Kurt Wimmer was working on a new adaptation of the Stephen King story CHILDREN OF THE CORN - and that this project was actually filming in Australia during the pandemic, while most other productions were shut down. That was possible because the production followed "stringent health and safety protocols", had multiple insurance policies in place, and did not have a completion bond.

Another re-imagining is on the way. Children of the Corn has wrapped production in Australia. Are King fans ready for this adaptation?

Children of the Corn is one of those Stephen King adaptations that frequently gets mentioned when discussing creepy kids in movies. The original 1984 film starring Linda Hamilton of Terminator fame and Peter Horton spawned a series of ten sequels.

The “re-imagining” of Stephen King’s Children of the Corn at the hands of Kurt Wimmer has officially finished shooting, as the cast pushed hard to get this one over the line during the ongoing crisis that is affecting the world.

While most movie productions have been shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, a new Children of the Corn movie that filmed in Australia found ways to keep going. The movie has now wrapped, and details are finally trickling out, including cast members and a brief synopsis. From the looks of things, this latest take on Stephen King‘s short story will be a prequel, detailing how those children of the corn got so darn creepy to begin with.

Two of the most-watched shows in the English-speaking world right now haven’t even been released yet.

Neighbours, which resumed production in suburban Melbourne two weeks ago after a four-week hiatus (the episodes now being filmed won’t screen for four more months), and Children of the Corn, a US-financed feature nearing the end of its shoot in Richmond, on the edge of Sydney, have captured the attention of the filmmaking world by showing it is possible to keep working through COVID-19 – albeit with some major modifications.

And according to some heavy hitters in the industry, that means Australia could be poised to attract a lot more foreign production and co-production as it emerges from the shutdown than might otherwise have been the case.

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There can’t be many examples of this – Kurt Wimmer, whose credits include writing and directing Equilibrium, has wrapped production on a feature film shot on set entirely during the lockdown.

This project is a yet-to-be-titled reimagining of Stephen King’s short story Children Of The Corn, which has already spawned 10 feature movies prior to this one, and shot in Australia. It originally went into production in New South Wales at the beginning of March. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced productions to shutdown across the world (few of which have resumed yet), the producers say they consulted with local body Screen NSW, which was a major investor in the pic, and decided to progress.

Kurt Wimmer’s reimagining of “Children of the Corn” has completed its coronavirus-defying shoot in Australia. The filmmakers employed stringent health and safety protocols, and multiple insurance policies.

The producers revealed the previously undisclosed cast of young actors, with Elena Kampouris (“Before I Fall”) and Kate Moyer (“When Hope Calls”) starring. They are accompanied by Australian talent Callan Mulvey (“Avengers: Endgame”) and Bruce Spence (“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”).

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