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Jim Jarmusch Has ‘Ghost Dog’ TV Series Updates! [Exclusive]
Jim Jarmusch has earned a legion of indie fans for his laconic, smart and unusual comedies and dramas, but the director of Night on Earth and Broken Flowers loves genre movies too. His latest film is a zombie comedy, The Dead Don’t Die, with an all-star cast including Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Tilda Swinton. He’s also made the alluring vampire romance Only Lovers Left Alive, the grimy western Dead Man and – perhaps most famously – the modern samurai gangster classic Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai.
Ghost Dog starred future Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker as the title character, a philosophical hitman who wields a katana and communicates by homing pigeon. The film, inspired by crime classics by Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki, has been developing a cult following since its release in 1999, and fans have always clamored for a follow-up.
But the new Ghost Dog won’t be another movie. “We’re working on [a] Ghost Dog TV series,” Jarmusch told Bloody-Disgusting in a recent interview. “We’re trying to get that going.”
The idea for a Ghost Dog series was teased earlier this year by Forest Whitaker, who told Entertainment Weekly that he was working on the project with Jim Jarmusch and RZA. Whitaker said he wouldn’t be starring in the series, which – if you’ve seen the original movie – makes a lot of sense.
But would Jarmusch come back to direct the Ghost Dog series? “Probably not,” Jarmusch told us. “I might direct the pilot but I’m more interested in being an executive producer and a kind of guide, which has been my involvement thus far along with RZA. So we’ve kind of been working together.”
“They have a script for a pilot that I had no involvement in except some ideas, that I really like. So yeah, we’re working on that but beyond that I don’t know,” Jarmusch added.
The director of The Dead Don’t Die hasn’t worked much in television, but he has some ideas. “How about the sitcom, The Coffee Zombies? There’s a sitcom,” Jarmusch joked. “I could be into that.”
“And you know I like this new format of 15 minute shows. It’s kind of cool. So maybe Coffee Zombies, the 15-minute sitcom. I don’t know!” Jarmusch laughed.
The Dead Don’t Die but they shamble into theaters on June 14, 2019.
Director Sébastien Vaniček has been set to helm the next Evil Dead movie, but up first from the filmmaker is the creepy crawly spider horror movie Infested. An exclusive new clip gives a discomfiting closer look at the spider terror, and it’ll make you intensely afraid of all bathroom drains and fixtures.
Infested will induce a new wave of arachnophobia this week; the spider horror film arrives on Shudder on April 26, 2024.
If you’re brave enough to face your fears, watch the new clip below to get a feel for the unrelenting wave of spiders that the characters (and the audience) will face in the film.
In the film, “An underprivileged suburb has been thrown into chaos following an invasion of venomous spiders. Ordered to be placed in quarantine, the project sees inhabitants living on lockdown alongside terrifying spiders that are becoming bigger and bigger.
“The story revolves around Kaleb, who’s about to turn 30 and has never been lonelier. He’s fighting with his sister over a matter of inheritance and has cut ties with his best friend.
“Passionate about exotic animals, he comes home one day with a venomous spider and accidentally lets it slip away.”
Théo Christine (“Suprêmes”), Finnegan Oldfield (“Final Cut”), Jérôme Niel (“Smoking Causes Coughing”), Sofia Lesaffre (“Les Misérables”) and Lisa Nyarko star.
Florent Bernard co-wrote the script.
In his review out of Fantastic Fest last year, Bloody Disgusting’s Trace Thurman raved that Infested (aka Vermines) is “one of the best spider attack movies in years,” noting in his 4-star review that the creature feature uses practical spiders – REAL SPIDERS – as much as possible. Thurman also wrote that the spider horror movie is “full of moments that will get under your skin (I kicked my legs up more than a few times in my screening).”
The spiders will be everywhere in Infested, are you ready?
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