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‘Mandy’ Director Panos Cosmatos Says He Absolutely Plans On Working With Nicolas Cage Again
Nicolas Cage is one of those actors whose career has only gotten more interesting as the years go by, and his performance as the vengeful Red Miller in Mandy has been hailed as one of his best in years by many critics. The Panos Cosmatos-directed fever dream has proven itself to be a 2018 horror hit, making both Cage and Cosmatos into horror heroes.
Could another Cosmatos/Cage film be in our future? Perhaps even a Mandy sequel? In a chat with THR, Cosmatos was asked if he’d like to work with Cage again, and he had this to say…
“Absolutely yeah. We’ve talked. I know we would like to work with each other again.”
Now the reason we even bring up a potential sequel to Mandy is because Cosmatos himself floated the idea (and it’s one hell of an idea) in a chat with Indiewire back in October.
“When I was writing the film, to amuse myself, I imagined a sequel that took place with Red Miller fighting Nazi punks in a bombed-out city,” Cosmatos told the site. He added, “I don’t know if that would ever happen, but it’s a fun thought.”
Hey, ya never know!
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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