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Shocking Frontrunners to Direct Glossy ‘Paranormal Activity’ Sequel?
I’ve been staring at a blinking cursor for about 5 minutes now. I don’t know what to say, I really don’t. While I trust the producers behind Paranormal Activity 2 explicitly, I have zero faith in the suits at the studio — you know, the old dudes who “think” they get it. If anything, history should provide a lesson, yet nobody wants to learn. Blair Witch 2 certainly panned out for Artisan, didn’t it? No, it was a failure. The transition from a low budget indie to a big budget polished studio fare in not just nauseating, but also completely idiotic. Maybe it’ll work? I’d bet against it. So, I’m staring at a blinking cursor because the LA Times just posted the names in the running to direct the sequel to Oren Peli’s box office smash hit from this past September, and while a few are exciting, I can’t help but feel like I’m about to be raped.
The most shocking name being throw around is directing icon Brian De Palma (Scarface, Dressed to Kill, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables), reports the LA Times.
They also add that Akiva Goldsman Goldsman, the Oscar-winning writer A Beautiful Mind, was at one point in talks. He’s also the writer and/or producer on a host of big-budget studio movies, including The Da Vinci Code and I Am Legend.
The fact that they’d even have such huge names in the same breath at Paranormal Activity 2 is a shocker and head-spinner. Seriously, why?
Aside from the bizarre and odd, there are a few genre directors that were mentioned that I’m quite fond of – and personally hope get the job before a De Palma-type name.
The first being Brad Anderson (The Machinist, Session 9), while the second is Greg McLean, who directed the fun direct-to-video giant croc flick Rogue, along with the Aussie thriller Wolf Creek.
Saw VI director Kevin Greutert was originally slated to get behind the camera until Lionsgate exercised an option to force him back into Jigsaw’s world for Saw VII 3D (currently lensing in Toronto).
Paranormal Activity 2 is still slated for release on October 22.
If you had to choose, who would you pick? What do you think of these options? This is a big deal as this could become a new franchise for our beloved genre. Saw appears to be losing steam, we need something.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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