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[SXSW ’12] The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In Guitarist Channels Miike For ‘Los Chidos’?
Pictured: Maria and youth through osmosis.
With the SXSW Film Festival kicking off this Friday in Austin, Texas, I thought I had all my ducks in a row. I’m personally being poked by the publicists behind a film that they’re calling “Fassbinder meets John “Shit Eating Grin” Waters meets Takashi Miike.” That’s definitely my cup of tea and also sounds right up our ally. I’ll give it a go here and then report back with more details if warranted.
Said film is Los Chidos and was written-directed by Omar Rodriguez Lopez who’s most well-known as the Grammy winning axeman for The Mars Volta and At The Drive-In.
Outside of the “official” plot, this is how it was personally described (sold) to me: “The film follows a gringo by the name of Kim who falls in with a sycophantic Mexican family when his car breaks down at their tire shop in Guadalajara. We soon find out that this family is royally f*cked up with a lot of hidden secrets. This gem is a deep, dark comedy and is allegorical, confronting many aspects of Western (US & Mexican) culture.”
Kim Stodel, María De Jesús Canales Ramírez, Manuel Ramos, Cecillia Gutiérrez, Erasmo Rodríguez, Bruno Champiz, Maimuna Achleitner Jiménez, Alejandro Rodríguez and Monica Gúzman Tovar all star.
“Genre films are one of the strongest weapons in allegory, they are the new form of fable which serve the purpose and intention of providing the necessary shock to the human spirit and unconscious mind with the hopes of awakening her/him from habitual patterns of thought that are a result of living in a docile, oppressed and homogenized society,” Lopez tells Bloody Disgusting speaking on our beloved genre.
You can pick up tickets here if interested. 
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Keanu Reeves Describes Untitled Time Loop Thriller from Director Tim Miller as ‘Groundhog Day’ With Sharks
At one point known as Shiver, Tim Miller‘s (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) next movie doesn’t yet have a title, but star Keanu Reeves offers a very intriguing tease this week.
Chatting with Collider, Reeves explains what drew him to the mysterious upcoming project from director Tim Miller. He tells the outlet, “Sharks. Time machine. Groundhog Day.”
That lines up with early plot details that surfaced earlier this year, with the film said to center on a “smuggler in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea.”
That synopsis continued, “Surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries, and bloodthirsty sharks, the man finds himself in a time loop and scrambling to break the cycle.”
Callie Cooke (“The Stranger”), Stefan Kapičić (Deadpool), Steven Waddington (Sleepy Hollow), Nicholas Duvernay (“The White Lotus”), Abraham Popoola (Cruella), Anastasia Safonov, and Bobby Holland Hanton (Thor: Love and Thunder) also star.
Ian Shorr (Splinter, Infinite) penned the screenplay for the sci-fi thriller, which had previously been described as having shades of Edge of Tomorrow and The Shallows.
Stay tuned for more on the untitled Warner Bros. project.
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