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Frabrice Du Welz to Helm First American Feature ‘More’
Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz is heading to New York for a “dark psychological thriller”, Bloody Disgusting was told in a press release announcing the film. After some resistance to working in the U.S., Belgian arthouse horror director Fabrice Du Welz has announced that he will be helming his first American feature. More (working title) is a dark psychological thriller set in downtown New York. For the auteur behind the moody, terrifying films Calvaire and Vinyan, the movie is “another exploration of the world of madness.” Read on for more.
21-year-old American Brady Corbet is set to play the lead in what Du Welz calls “truly a breakout role.” The director was immediately drawn to Corbet, who has worked with Michael Hanneke (FUNNY GAMES US) and Gregg Araki (MYSTERIOUS SKIN). “He’s a bright young actor, full of potential,” says Du Welz. “As soon as I met him, I had a strong feeling.”
On board as director of photography is regular Du Welz collaborator Benoit Debie, who most recently shot Gaspar Noe’s ENTER THE VOID and the biopic of American 70s teen band THE RUNAWAYS.
While this will be Du Welz’s first Stateside effort, MORE will be his second English-language film, after 2009’s stunning VINYAN, a Venice and Toronto premiere. That film starred Rufus Sewell and Emmanuelle Beart as a couple who, mourning the loss of their son in the 2004 Southeast Asia tsunami, go on a hapless search for the child in the jungles of Burma.
MORE, penned by 22-year-old newcomer Zachary Wigon, is being produced by Alex Mar and Nicholas Shumaker of New York- and Florida-based Empire 8 Productions, in conjunction with Michael Gentile of Paris-based The Film.
Empire 8 is currently in post-production on Mar’s directorial debut, AMERICAN MYSTIC, a high-aesthetic feature doc about twenty-somethings immersed in fringe religious groups in the U.S. They are also in post on Mike Cahill’s arthouse sci-fi film ANOTHER EARTH, with producers Paul Mezey (HALF NELSON, MARIA FULL OF GRACE) and Hunter Gray (VOY A EXPLOTAR, MOMMA’S MAN) of Artists Public Domain.
The Film produced Du Welz’s two previous films. Their most recent production, THE TIME THAT REMAINS, is receiving its North American premiere in Toronto, following screenings in competition in Cannes.
MORE is set to go into production this spring in New York.
One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.
With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.
Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…
“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”
If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.
Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.
Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”
Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.
Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.
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