Michael Rooker, one of those actors who has been in supporting roles in uncountable of our favorite movies. Perhaps we won’t recognize him by the name, but surely you’ll recall his face. Achieving a deserved cult status since his debut on the big screen with Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), he has appeared in over 100 titles including JFK (1991), Days of Thunder (1990), The Dark Half (1993), Cliffhanger (1993), Tombstone (1993), Mallrats (1995), The Replacement Killers (1998), The Bone Collector (1999), The 6th Day (2000), The Belko Experiment (2016) or the popular TV series The Walking Dead (2010– ). And maybe lately is even better known for being Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) by James Gunn, a director who has also collaborated with in Slither (2006) and Super (2010) before the Marvel madness started.
Deadline has made public this month that Michael Rooker will be the star of Monster Problems, an upcoming fantasy movie with doses of science-fiction and horror about the aftermath of an alien apocalypse. Dylan O’Brien and Ariana Greenblatt have been confirmed partnering up as the cast of the movie alongside Michael Rooker, where he will portrait a veteran hunter who is becoming one of the biggest insurances in order to survive in this new world order plagued with monsters.
Michael Matthews, responsible of the awarded western thriller Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017), is directing and has written the script for Monster Problems based on an early screenplay by Brian Duffield, writer of Insurgent (2015) and The Babysitter (2017).
Paramount Players is producing Monster Problems, which is currently in the status of filming and is planned to be the first entry of an upcoming movie franchise.
