Most of it comes down to its casting and less about the location, but director Adam Wingard talked to IGN about how the location and character will differ greatly from the source material:
"In the early stages of the film I was rereading all of the manga, really just looking at how does any of this[...]
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Adam Wingard (You're Next, Blair Witch) was chosen to direct the film, which is based on an adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba's manga series Netflix first released a teaser trailer for the movie in March, and there was backlash from some accusing Netflix of "whitewashing" the original source material and depriving actors of[...]
It's been a little while since the Blair With franchise reared its head, which is actually quite surprising, considering the home made, handheld style that it helped spawn became so big.
However, better late than never, it was revealed that a project previously called The Woods was in fact just a front for a new sequel[...]
Dan Stevens leaves no recognizable sign of his previous stint on Downton Abbey here in the first trailer for Adam Wingard's The Guest, his follow-up to the well-received but under-performing You're Next.
He doesn't exactly do anything, but the whole trailer is menacing and seems to be screaming that this family with a fallen soldier son[...]