The director of much-acclaimed French slasher Frontière(s) is working on his new film Vanikoro, Twitch and Bloody-Disgusting report. With Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viggo Mortensen attached to star, the shooting is scheduled to begin in New Zealand and Australia in 2010.

Vanikoro will mix the story of Indianapolis S.S. with an island of hungry cannibals surrounded by shark-infested waters and will be based at least in part on true events:

The French explorer La Perouse, was wrecked on Vanikoro in 1788. The ship Boussole was destroyed on a reef along with most of the crew. The second ship Astrolabe was also wrecked, but survivors salvaged enough to build a small ship and sailed away. Two survivors remained on the island into the early 1800’s.

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