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‘Saw’ Vet Mesmerized By ’11 11 11′ Phenomenon
It was announced tonight that Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II-IV, Mother’s Day) is partnering with producer Wayne Rice to take on the 11:11 phenomenon via a horror-tinged thriller titled 11 11 11 that will land in theaters on Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The 11:11 movement is centered on the emergence of that number in people’s lives that alerts them to angels or spirit guardians trying to communicate with them, says the site. Conspiracy theorists also point to the number 11’s involvement in historical events. Bousman is in the process of writing “11 11 11,” which will take on the idea of 11 gates of Heaven and how on 11:11 on the 11th day of the 11th month, the 11th gate will open up and something from another world will enter the earthly realm for 49 minutes. We caught up with Bousman who added a bit more.
“It’s exciting to get back into writing. I just sold my first script SINCE Saw 2, to THE GENRE COMPANY, it’s a monster movie… Now, I am writing 11:11 for Wayne Rice,” Bousman tells Bloody Disgusting.
While little is known about 11:11, Bousman explains how it comes up in life more often than you think. “11:11 is something I knew little about, and now it seems to be consuming my life. There is phenomenon that affects 75,000,000 people where the numbers 11:11 appear in their life, once you begin to notice it, it takes over and shows itself to you repeatedly.”
“When Wayne first approached me, I wasn’t interested,” Bousman says of his first impression, before being blown away by real-life events. “I saw ‘The Number 23’, and am not big into numerology. Then it happened. 24 hours after our meeting I started noticing the 11:11 everywhere – INCLUDING my own birthday 01/11/1979. 1/11/1. Wayne and I began to talk – ok so 75,000,000 are experiencing this – BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Thats when I got excited. Wayne pitched me an idea, and immediately I was hooked. Maybe it’s a warning…” he jokes.
“Within a week we had a terrifying story ALL based in reality, and fact. One that I think will scare a lot of people.” Set your alarms, 2011 is going to change your life, or at least your perception of things.
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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