Canadian filmmaker Jason Eisener is a special talent.
After breaking onto the scene with his legendary holiday short, “Treevenge,” he became a horror name with his indie Hobo With a Shotgun.
While he’s not directing on the reg (he did helm the fantastic V/H/S/2 segment, “Alien Abduction Slumber Party/Abduction”), he’s all over the place in the horror genre. Not only is he one of the editors on Southbound, but he’s also executive producer on Turbo Kid and even second unit director on Netflix’s Death Note, which reteams him with director Adam Wingard.
His next directing gig, however, will be an adaptation of Robert Huszar and Ken Landgraf’s comic New York City Outlaws, EW reports.
“The movie concerns a group of vigilantes who join forces to rescue NYC from total anarchy during a prolonged police strike.”
New York City Outlaws is written by Bryan Connolly and Zack Carlson, host of Vice’s cult film show, Outsider. The movie is produced by Rhombus Media, whose credits include the just-released Ellen Page-starring Into the Forest and director Brandon Cronenberg’s 2012 film Antiviral. (Rhombus also announced this week that it will produce Cronenberg’s second film, Possessor, about a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies, ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.)
