Badlands Acquires Bigfoot Action-Horror Script ‘Wildman’

Badlands has acquired the script for Wildman, an action-horror project built around a human-hunting Bigfoot. Dread Central reports that the screenplay is being described as “John Wick meets Bigfoot,” citing reporting from The Hollywood Reporter. Written by Jacob Reiner, Wildman centers on a Bigfoot whose younger brother is killed by hunters. According to the film’s official synopsis, the creature sets out to recover the body and kills those responsible along the way. Carson Reeves discovered the script through Blood and Ink, his horror screenwriting contest, and is attached to the project as an executive producer. The available report does not identify a director, cast, production schedule, or release date for Wildman. Badlands’ next announced release is Crawlers, a spider-invasion movie starring Matilda Lutz. That film is scheduled to arrive on October 16, though no release information has been provided for Wildman.