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Ari Aster Executive Produces Upcoming Stop-Motion Supernatural Horror Short ‘The Bones’
Filming has wrapped on a short titled The Bones, Variety reports, and what’s particularly notable is that the film is being executive produced by Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar).
Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña directed the short, a stop-motion horror tale.
Variety details, “The Bones is a dive into recent Chilean history just as the country is drafting a new constitution to replace the current document, which was passed during Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship. The premise is a callback to the world’s supposed first stop-motion animated film. Dated 1901 and excavated in Chile in 2021, the 16mm footage documents a ritual in which a young indigenous girl uses human bones to summon the spirits of the two best known ideologues of conservative Chilean values – founding father Diego Portales and close Pinochet collaborator Jaime Guzmán – to “unwrite” history.”
“With La Casa Lobo (The Wolf House), Cociña and León struck me as the clear successors to Jan Svankmajer and the Quays,” Aster explains to Variety. “Here they seem to be channeling Ladislas Starevich and Joel-Peter Witkin, while sharpening their uncanny and unmistakable signature. Los Huesos is a brilliant film by two utterly singular filmmakers.”
Head over to Variety to learn more and see another first-look image.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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