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UPDATED: Eli Roth’s ‘Cotton’ Announced, New Yorkville Ripper Film
Update: Eli Roth adds a little more details, which can be found inside! StudioCanal is adding genre fare to its traditionally arthouse-oriented lineup for AFM. They’ve scored the rights for two films that will be of interest to Bloody-Disgusting readers. The first is Red Riding, a thriller featuring “the Yorkshire Ripper,” while they’ll also be getting behind Eli Roth’s latest horror venture (as a producer), Cotton, which was inspired by CLOVERFIELD’s success. You can read all of the juicy details inside.
UPDATE: Eli Roth writes in, “This is a project that Eric Newman from Strike and I have been putting together for a while. Eric and I have been looking for projects to produce together for a while now, and this will be our first venture,” Roth tells Bloody-Disgusting. “The success of CLOVERFIELD and QUARANTINE definitely helps show the foreign buyers that there’s still a market for a film made for a film in this style.
“In short, COTTON is the scariest script I’ve read in years. I’m a huge fan of the filmmakers, who made a brilliantly funny, sick, and rarely-seen film called MAIL ORDER WIFE. I even remember being blown away by Huck Botko’s student film when I was at NYU, he’s an incredibly talented director who has not yet broken through to the mainstream. If people have seen MAIL ORDER WIFE, then that dark, sick comedy sensibility replaced with a true sense of terror and you’ll have COTTON. It’s very difficult to describe or sum up in a few words, but I have not come across a script this terrifying in years, and neither has Eric Newman. We’re really, really, really excited about this film and can’t wait to get shooting.”
Read the announcement below:
The Paris-based sales company has nabbed international rights to “Red Riding,” a three-part thriller penned by Tony Grisoni (“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,”) and co-produced by Channel 4 and Andrew Eaton and Michael Winterbottom’s Revolution Entertainment.
Adapted from David Peace’s novel, the trilogy is based on the six-year police investigation of Peter William Suttcliffe, aka “the Yorkshire Ripper,” who killed 12 women in Northern England in the 1970s.
The three pics will be released separately and will be directed by three different helmers: Julian Jarrold, James Marsh and Anand Tucker.
In post-production, the first pic stars Andrew Garfield, Rebecca Hall and Sean Bean.
StudioCanal also picked up “Cotton,” a horror film in the vein of “Cloverfield” and “Blair Witch Project” that was directed by Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland and produced by Eli Roth for Strike Entertainment.
Story concerns an evangelical minister who turns against religion and decides to participate in a documentary in which he practices his last exorcism.
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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