Fashionable scream queen Melissa Barrera has secured her subsequent horror position, which ought to intrigue die-hard followers of the style. The Scream, Abigail, and Within the Heights star has a number of upcoming initiatives as she continues to cement herself as a Hollywood icon, permitting her to work with different rising stars and veteran A-listers, together with, clearly, Courteney Cox and Neve Campbell.
Now, Deadline reviews that Barrera has joined the brand new maritime horror Black Tides, starring alongside John Travolta. Directed by Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Die Onerous 2), Black Tides will comply with a father (Travolta) making an attempt to reconnect along with his daughter (Barrera) and grandson whereas they’re out at sea, when they’re attacked by a gaggle of orcas, triggering a struggle for survival.
The film is at the moment filming in Gran Canaria, Spain, and director Harlin emphasised that the 2 leads are the spine of the story, saying: “Melissa brings each hearth and vulnerability to a job that calls for all of it — emotionally, bodily, and cinematically. She and John are film magic collectively, and so they elevate each beat of this story.“
Black Tides will even star Travolta’s daughter, Ella Bleu Travolta, in addition to Álvaro Mel and Dylan Torrell. The film is written by Chris Sparling (Greenland) and Ángel Agudo (Apocalypse Z), and produced by Adrián Guerra and Nuria Valls underneath the Nostromo Footage (Buried, Hen Field Barcelona) banner.
The premise of Black Tides sounds much like Blake Full of life’s 2016 film The Shallows, a couple of surfer who’s cornered within the water by an incredible white shark, and different horror-thrillers about individuals who run afoul of vicious sharks or whales and need to outsmart their attackers. Hopefully, Black Tides will thoughtfully have interaction with the person vs. nature narrative and be a worthy addition to Barrera’s filmography.
Along with the legacy sequels that revived the Scream franchise, the star’s greatest motion pictures embrace Abigail, which places a artistic spin on vampire lore because it focuses on a gaggle of mercenaries who face off with a baby vampire. Followers who need to see Barrera in equally creative photos ought to hope for Black Tides to be a contemporary survival thriller and creature function.
Audiences might also word that Barrera’s standing as a “ultimate woman” implies that her character will nearly actually survive the occasions of Black Tides. Because the profession of Melissa Barrera continues, we’ll hopefully see some entries that come to form trendy horror. This killer whale journey in the end might not be certainly one of them, nevertheless it has at the least secured a first-rate co-lead.
- Birthdate
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July 4, 1990
- Birthplace
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Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
- Professions
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Actress, Singer
- Peak
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5 ft 7 inches