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Jason Eisener Adapting ‘New York City Outlaws’!
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.)
It’s been eight years since Ari Aster came onto the scene and helped usher in a new wave of horror with Hereditary, one of the rare horror movies from the past ten years that still seems to come up in conversation every single week. And it’s back in the conversation this week, with Ari Aster revealing at an event that he’s already written a prequel to Hereditary!
Ari Aster was on hand at the American Cinematheque for Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair last week, a Los Angeles festival that screened all of Aster’s movies to date. The website Gold Derby reports that Aster revealed the Hereditary prequel script during a Q&A at the event, and you can watch the full Q&A conversation below for confirmation on the website’s report.
“I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster told the crowd, referring to Hereditary. “It never feels like the right time to do it. It’s a prequel, not a sequel so I don’t know where this goes.”
Would a potential Hereditary prequel dig deeper into the mythology of demon king Paimon? Unfortunately, Aster provides no further details on his prequel approach at this time.
Aster said of Hereditary during the same Q&A, “I was just trying to make a really good horror movie.” I think most horror fans would agree that he more than accomplished that goal, and the past eight years have proven that Hereditary is an enduring classic of its generation.
We celebrated the fifth anniversary of Hereditary here on BD back in 2023.
Ron Breton wrote, “Hereditary offers a similar emotional resonance to this new generation of horror – my generation of horror– as movie-goers in the seventies when they first saw Exorcist. Much like Aster’s film, we see the incomprehensible evil wear the face of a young girl; the victim of a raw deal she had no say in, as it tears a family to its core. Sure, both films offer so many terrifying visuals that can make the hair stand up on anyone’s neck – but it also depicts intense relationships and emotions that are tangible. Real. Familiar.”
“In that familiarity lies the uncanny, ready to rear its ugly head and force us to confront thoughts and horrors laying dormant and clawing at our psyche,” Breton continued his 5th anniversary celebration of Hereditary. “And it doesn’t matter if it’s been five or fifty years. These horrors are always there, as we become pawns in its horrible, hopeless machine.”
Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, and Milly Shapiro star in Hereditary. In the film, “A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.”
That’s putting it mildly, eh?!
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