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‘Relic’ Director Natalie Erika James Teases Three Horror Movies She’s Currently Writing
The horror world has seen a handful of incredible debut features in recent years, from Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Jordan Peele’s Get Out to Robert Eggers’ The Witch and Ari Aster’s Hereditary. Right up there with those incredible horror films is Natalie Erika James‘ Relic, a devastating metaphor for dementia that was just released earlier this month.
Horror in 2020 doesn’t get much better than Relic, and the film has left us with a whole lot of excitement for whatever its co-writer/director does next. So what’s next, you ask?
Speaking with Fangoria in the magazine’s latest issue (#8), Natalie Erika James teases what she’s currently working on. “I’m writing a few things, and they’re in subgenres of horror I would say,” she tells the magazine. “The one that’s furthest along is a Japanese folk horror which is very in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Wicker Man, that kind of thing.”
She continues, “It has to do with pregnancy and the push and pull between self-hood and motherhood because… it does feel like a horror story. I feel like nothing in your life can prepare you for the trauma of childbirth, at least not in what I witnessed when my sister went through it.”
“And then I’m also writing a demon horror set in LA, and a body horror set in NY,” James adds.
Relic is now available through VOD outlets via IFC Midnight.
We had learned two weeks ago that a sixth installment in Legendary’s 10-years-strong Monsterverse is in the works, and The Hollywood Reporter brings us the latest update tonight.
The site reports that Adam Wingard, who directed both Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong, will NOT be returning to direct the upcoming follow-up to Godzilla x Kong.
THR notes, “The parting of ways is described as amicable and stemming from timing issues. The door remains open for a future return, per insiders.”
Wingard is instead returning to his roots with the upcoming Onslaught, an action-thriller for A24 that’s said to be more in the vein of his earlier movies You’re Next and The Guest.
Dave Callaham (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) is writing the upcoming sixth movie in the Monsterverse franchise. We have no idea if it’ll be a follow-up to Adam Wingard’s two movies, or if it will take the film franchise down a new path. Stay tuned.
Beginning with the Godzilla film in 2014 and continuing through 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, and most recently the record-breaking Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the Monsterverse has accumulated over $2B at the global box office and expanded into the highly successful event series, Legendary’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters for Apple TV+. We recently learned that “Monarch” is getting a second season, with more Monsterverse spinoff shows being planned at Apple TV+.
“Apple TV+ has struck a new multi-series deal with Legendary Entertainment, which includes multiple spinoff series based on the franchise,” the recent press release had stated.
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