Alien horror thriller short **Welcome To Willits: After Sundown **is screening at this year’s SXSW festival in the Midnight Short competition. But it already has a bright future as director Trevor Ryan is planning a feature-length adaptation and has Teresa Palmer signed up for one of the lead roles{
He probably didn’t have too much trouble securing her services, as she’s married to the short’s star, Mark Webber, who will return for the film. Welcome To Willits (it may lose the After Sundown bit for the adaptation), was written by Ryan’s brother Tim and finds Webber as Brock, a man waiting in an isolated Northern California cabin for his friend to complete a drug deal. He becomes increasingly more desperate and paranoid that aliens are heading his way to attack and abduct him again. Is he just a lunatic? Well, he is in a cabin in the woods. We know that in movies, that’s not usually a good sign.
In the feature version, the plot will feature a group of young campers who get lost in the woods near the cabin and encounter Brock, with Palmer set to play his niece. There’s no word yet on when Ryan will start shooting.
Palmer has several films on the way, including **Triple Nine **(out September 11) and the Point Break remake, which surfs over here on January 8 next year.