Movies
Kevin Smith’s ‘Red State’ in a Bad State
While on hand at the Monster Mania convention in Connecticut, a B-D regular contacted us about a Q+A session that just ended with Jason Mewes, best known as Jay in Kevin Smith’s comedies. Mewes told the audience that the Weinstein Company has passed on Smith’s horror script Red State, adding that the project is on hold indefinitely as there are two movies already planned to go before State. I can’t say I was all that excited anyways for this horror film in which a group of misfits encounter fundamentalism gone to the extreme in Middle America.
While we wait for the serial killer thriller Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel) has already set up his NEXT movie. It’s titled Keeper.
Deadline reports tonight that Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) and Rossif Sutherland (Possessor) will star in Keeper, and NEON has acquired the rights to the project.
Deadline notes, “Neon will distribute in the U.S. and handle international sales rights to the film in Cannes, with Elevation Pictures set to distribute in Canada.”
“Keeper follows a couple as they escape for a romantic anniversary weekend at a secluded cabin. When Malcolm (Sutherland) suddenly returns to the city, Liz (Maslany) finds herself isolated and in the presence of an unspeakable evil that unveils the cabin’s horrifying secrets.”
Perkins will direct from a screenplay written by Nick Lepard.
First up, NEON will release Longlegs in theaters on July 12.
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