14 DAY TRIAL // Their relationship has generated a lot of media in the past, both because of the age difference and because it presumably was reason for divorce. Shock rocker Marilyn Manson and Rachel Evan Wood, now back together again and engaged to be married, are to become onscreen partners as well as they have been cast in a slasher movie called “Splatter Sisters,” Variety informs.
Manson has worked with Wood before, as he featured her in one of his music videos. The two broke up soon after that and the separation seemed for good, as the rocker even made another video (for “Running to the Edge of the World”) in which he cast a Wood lookalike being brutally murdered. In December last year, they were officially back together – and engaged shortly afterwards. The movie they’re to star in is what Variety describes as a classic slasher, the kind both stars are so fond of.
“Veteran producer Edward R. Pressman and filmmaker David Gordon Green are teaming to produce Adam Bhala Lough's retro slasher film ‘Splatter Sisters,’ with Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood attached to star. Film, penned by Lough, is the first in a planned franchise and is a[n] exploitation-serial-killer-slasher-road-movie circa 1989. Lough (‘Bomb the System’) reckons ‘Splatter Sisters’ could create a subgenre, which he calls ‘Skinemax Cinema,’ based on the direct-to-cable movies of his childhood,” the movie publication informs.
“Green ("Pineapple Express," "Your Highness") said while Lough's film is inspired by the horror classics of the 1980s, it has a fresh spin that raises the bar. ‘This is a role Marilyn Manson was born to play, and with Evan Rachel Wood bringing dramatic gravity to the ensemble, I have no doubt this will take the horror genre to a new level,’ Green said. ‘Splatter Sisters’ was announced in Cannes. Pressman is at the fest for the world preem of 20th Century Fox's ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.’ He is one of the producers of helmer Oliver Stone's sequel,” Variety further says.
As also noted above, hopes are high “Splatter Sisters” will turn out to be just a first in a long-lived successful franchise. Visionary director Lough and the talent of the celebrity couple, combined with an original and bloody story will make of this film a very bankable slasher, it is also being said.