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Jay Baruchel Teases Upcoming Horror Projects and Dark Take on ‘Robin Hood’ He’s Developing
A brutal slasher film with something to say, Jay Baruchel‘s Random Acts of Violence (read Trace’s review) is now streaming on Shudder, ushering the actor/filmmaker into the horror genre with both style and substance. Playing out like a sort of indie New Nightmare, the film sees a horror writer’s slasher villain bleed over into the real world, asking intriguing questions about our collective fascination with all things dark and violent while also touching upon the ways in which art can both exploit and help us deal. It’s a thinking fan’s slasher movie, so to speak, and it suggests that Baruchel is a fresh and welcome new voice on the horror scene.
So what’s next from the creative mind behind Random Acts of Violence? Speaking with Bloody Disgusting’s The Boo Crew Podcast this week, Baruchel teases what he’s got in the works.
“So I don’t know what I’m allowed to mention of the shit I’m allowed to mention… I’ve got a lot of stuff,” Baruchel told The Boo Crew when asked if he has any horror projects brewing. “It’s always feast or famine in any freelance work. And so it’s kind of, I can never put all my eggs in one basket at once. Right now it’s like, five or six things of varying degrees of maturation.”
He continued, “The thing I can maybe talk about, cause I’m the only one doing it right now; we have kind of our take on the Robin Hood story. There’s a really kind of heavy duty fucked up, trippy Robin Hood we want to do. No fucking castles. No horses. Just dirty and in the woods. If you go back to the original Robin Hood source material it’s really trippy shit.”
Baruchel went on to compare his vision of Robin Hood to First Blood and Taxi Driver, set in the woods, noting that the project is currently being developed with Karim Hussain.
You can listen to The Boo Crew’s full chat with Jay Baruchel below.
Two-time BAFTA winning filmmaker Joe Wright (Hanna, “Black Mirror“) is set to direct the feature adaptation of post-apocalyptic thriller novel, Juice, Deadline reports today.
Emmy winner Abi Morgan (Shame, “Eric”) will adapt Tim Winton‘s novel for Working Title Films.
In Juice, “A young husband and father is recruited into a top-secret resistance organization, to join the ranks of militia men tasked with targeting the isolated and wealthy culprits responsible for this global catastrophe. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself on the run, having to fight to the end to survive in this hostile world.”
It’s set in a world ravaged by climate-change disaster.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled that Tim Winton has entrusted us with his extraordinary epic,” Wright told Deadline. “The story is both a thrilling modern family saga and an urgent call to action. I cannot wait for audiences to experience it on the big screen.”
Winton added, “I’m pleased to know a filmmaker of Joe Wright’s calibre has chosen to adapt Juice for the screen. His capacity to portray the turmoil and the turning points of nations and peoples as well as private individuals distinguishes his work as a director and I’m confident that Juice is in good hands.”
Juice was initially published in October 2024 and longlisted for The Climate Fiction Prize 2026.
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