Salkind At Work On Two Horror Films

Ilya Salkind is developing what he describes as "an epic horror film" titled "The Abominable Snowman," with Emmet/Furla Films and producer Gale Anne Hurd. Mark "Crash" McCreery, who last worked on "Dreamcatcher," is designing the monster, which Salkind insists must remain strictly under wraps: "I really want to create the mystery, mystery, mystery until he's out in the theaters," he says.

And he's working on another terror film, based on Native-American myths, called "Forest Primevil." In fact, he's already written an ad line: "The screaming begins."

Ilya Salkind is both the grandson of Michael Salkind, a Russian native, who first got a foothold in films working with director G.W. Pabst and the young Greta Garbo on the 1925 German silent "The Joyless Street," and the son of Alexander Salkind, who first attracted attention with movies such as Abel Gance's "Austerlitz" in 1960 and Orson Welles' "The Trial" in 1962.

Source: Hollywood Reporter