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Josh Boone’s Dark Take On ‘The Vampire Lestat’
More from Collider‘s interview with The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone, who confirms he’s fighting for the right to get behind the camera for Universal Pictures’ The Vampire Lestat.
“I’m still in the process… Really I haven’t even officially been hired yet,” he explains in a rare admission by a director. “I’m still in the process of trying to get hired. I’m always surprised when those things leak online. But I love it and I want to do it. I’m just in the developmental stage where I’m still kicking the project around.”
But what I enjoyed about Collider’s chat with Boone is his take on Anne Rice’s material, which a lot of people seem to misinterpret as horror.
“I would argue that [‘Lestat’s’] a romance film,” Boone explains when asked about his turn to horror. “If you look at ‘Interview with a Vampire,’ it’s about two people who are sort of in a toxic marriage for a century. You know what I mean? [‘Lestat’] really is still a character-driven story about a relationship.”
Personally, I’m so over the rockstar vampire sub genre (Only Lovers Left Alive put a stake in it), which is why I really hope they tell the history aspect of Lestat’s story as opposed to the modern day one.
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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