After a hot streak with her indie festival fav A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (pictured), director Ana Lily Amirpour is partnering with Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures for the “dystopian love story” The Bad Batch.
IOn an interview with Filmmaker Magazine, she described the Southern-set as “…a post-apocalyptic cannibal love story set in a Texas wasteland.
“A muscled cannibal breaks the rule ‘don’t play with your food,” she adds. “It’s Road Warrior meets Pretty In Pink with a dope soundtrack.”
Adding a bit more: “There’s going to be muscle men and amputees set against a desert backdrop. I want to shoot anamorphic color and have a look and feel of the ’80s and ’90s with an eclectic soundtrack that’s part techno, part Western, and part ’90s pop.
“It’s my Mad Max meets Gummo.
“It’s going to be really weird and romantic and also very violent.”
The film is in development with a screenplay now completed.
