Overview
- Trade outlets, which published their reports Thursday, said Long and Apatow are negotiating to star as the project gears up for production.
- Director Colin Minihan will helm Stung, a survival story about four teenage girls trapped in a luxury Orange County home overrun by Africanized killer bees.
- Producers Andre Relis and Jib Polhemus tapped VMI Worldwide to present the film at the Cannes market, a standard pre-sales move used to help fund independent features.
- Minihan said the film draws on a primal fear of an unstoppable swarm while focusing on friendship, trust, and survival under pressure.
- Minihan recently teamed with Long on Coyotes and the pair plan a Grave Encounters reboot, signaling an ongoing creative partnership as more casting news is expected in the coming months.