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Artist Shares ‘Mandy’ Concept Art, Including Nicolas Cage’s Character and Those Crazy Evil Bikers
You’ll no doubt be hearing a lot about Panos Cosmatos’ cult fave Mandy in the coming months, as it’s sure to be headlining countless end of the year “Best Of” lists across the internet. You can currently rent the film on VOD or pick up a physical copy, and we’ve learned today that Shudder will become its exclusive streaming home on November 29th.
In the meantime, concept/storyboard artist Rob McCallum just shared some cool pieces of concept art from Mandy with Digital Arts Online, in addition to providing some insights.
“After reading the great script by Panos and [writer] Aaron Stewart-Ahn, I did some roughs and Panos could pick and choose what he liked to develop further,” McCallum explained to the site. “He’d send photos of textures and shapes – one email of pics had a lovely pic of David Lee Roth in full metal pose at the end captioned DAVE. I’d work from those onto what would eventually become the final design.”
Check out McCallum’s concepts for Nicolas Cage‘s Red Miller and the evil bikers below.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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