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Samuel Goldwyn Films Convinced ‘Nancy’ Was Kidnapped
Samuel Goldwyn Films has purchased North American rights to Christina Choe’s thriller Nancy, which premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival in U.S. Dramatic Competition and won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, reports Variety. Samuel Goldwyn will give the film a traditional theatrical release later this year.
Nancy stars Andrea Riseborough as a woman who becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she encounters a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, fact and fiction begin to blur. As their bond deepens, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief – and the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality.
The cast includes Steve Buscemi, J. Smith-Cameron, Ann Dowd, and John Leguizamo. Producers are Amy Lo of Mental Pictures, Michelle Cameron, and Riseborough, who produced Nancy as the first film under her banner Mothersucker.
Executive producers are EON Productions’ Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, Gamechanger Films’ Mynette Louie, and XS Media’s Rachel Song.
From director Sébastien Vaniček, Evil Dead Burn releases in theaters July 10, but that’s just one of two brand new Evil Dead movies releasing in the next two years.
Evil Dead Wrath recently wrapped production, with the upcoming film from director Francis Galluppi (The Last Stop in Yuma County) set for theatrical release on April 7, 2028.
We’ve known virtually nothing about the movie up to this point, but a recent interview with producer Rob Tapert has surfaced this week (thanks, Dread Central) and it reveals a very surprising bit of information about Evil Dead Wrath. The film is set in 1972!!
Tapert told the students at Michigan State University during a chat, “Evil Dead Wrath is yet another great departure. It predates everything. It takes place in 1972.”
That means Evil Dead Wrath takes place even before the arrival of Ash Williams and friends to that infamous cabin in the woods, which should give the film a whole new kind of flavor.
Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness was of course set in the Middle Ages, but Evil Dead Wrath will take place chronologically before Ash Williams was transported into medieval times!
“It will feel like a 1972 movie because the director and his DP want to imitate the film’s look and feel of something that’s called Ektachrome 100, which was a film stock,” Tapert notes. “Still available. A lot of movies shot on back then. And so it’s very warm, very tungsten.”
Tapert calls Wrath “very Tarantino-esque, very deliberate. [Galluppi] made a movie, not a horror movie, that I liked a great deal called Last Stop in Yuma County. It’s worth looking up.”
The Last Stop in Yuma County, it’s interesting to note, is also set in the 1970s!
Charlotte Hope (The Nun), Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat), Zach Gilford (“Midnight Mass”), Josh Helman (Mad Max: Fury Road), Ella Newton (Dangerous Animals), Elizabeth Cullen (Diabolic), and Ella Oliphant will star in Evil Dead Wrath.
Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi and franchise producer Rob Tapert are producing. Bruce Campbell and Lee Cronin will executive produce alongside Romel Adam and Jose Canas.