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"Sin Eaters" Leaves Funny Taste
Chow time's delayed for a bunch of sin-munching men of the cloth.
Apparently, 20th Century Fox found its occult thriller Sin Eaters so unpalatable the studio sent it back to the kitchen.
The movie, which reunited A Knight's Tale stars Heath Ledger and Shannyn Sossamon with director Brian Helgeland, was due in theaters January 17. But after test audiences screamed--with laughter--at what were supposed to be chilling special effects, the studio pulled the project for some serious retooling.
Aside from a makeover in the scare department, the movie's title has also been changed to The Order, according to Daily Variety. The flick will remain on the shelf indefinitely--although the studio is reportedly eyeing a possible late-summer release date.
Details of the mediocre special effects leaked by production insiders to the trade paper include flying "sins" that look like calamari. The mobile sins (or flying squid), come from corpses used as human dinner plates by an ancient order of rogue priests. The priests consume and absolve the earthly transgressions of the deceased by dining on them and then ingesting their exiting sins.
Ledger stars as a modern-day man of the cloth tracking the case of a murderous Sin Eater in Rome who's got a bad case of indigestion.
The initial effects were done by Mill Film in London (a town known for its questionable cuisine). The studio and Helgeland are reportedly more optimistic about the new effects being produced by Santa Monica-based visual effects company Asylum.
This isn't the first setback for the ecclesiastical whodunit. Lead Eater Vincent Cassel (Brotherhood of the Wolf) quit three weeks into production due to creative difference. (Maybe it was something he ate?) He was replaced by German actor Benno Furmann.
Aussie bad boy Ledger must be hungry for a hit. He hasn't packed 'em in since 2001's Knight's Tale. Last year's Four Feathers with Hollywood pedigree princess Kate Hudson made a disappointing $18.3 million at the box office.
Meanwhile, if audiences aren't tempted by The Order, Ledger's got another shot this year with the Aussie-stacked Kelly Gang. The actor stars as outlaw Ned Kelly, leader of a gun-slinging gang of robbers who roam the outback. Real-life girlfriend Naomi Watts plays his love interest, and the couple are joined by friend Rachel Griffiths. Ledger and Watts were on the guest list at Griffiths' New Year's Eve wedding in Melbourne this week.
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