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TV: NBC Gets ‘Grimm’ With ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ Producers
Seriously, is it me or is horror exploding on TV? One of my biggest gripes with horror movies is that they don’t spend enough time developing characters — before they’re “offed”. The more you care, the most of an impact it has. This is why I LOVE the idea of horror-themed TV, a place with infinite possibilities when it comes to character development (which is why I was slightly disappointed with the first season of “The Walking Dead”).
NBC is getting into the mix as they’ve picked up another pilot mixing fantasy with a crime drama: The network has greenlit “Grimm,” described as a “dark but fantastical cop drama about a world in which characters inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist.”
EW reports that the project is from Jim Kouf (“Angel”) and David Greenwalt (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), with executive producers Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner. The order comes on top of “Battlestar” guru Ron Moore’s “17th Precinct,” also at NBC, about cops working a town where people have magical powers. Being that it’s NBC, don’t expect any gore like in “True Blood,” but maybe there’s something compelling to be told?
Either way, I’d like to think Adam Green (Hatchet, Frozen) is reading this going, “what the F*CK?” Read on to watch his short film “Fairy Tale Police.” Hmmmmmmm.
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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