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‘The First Omen’ Star Nell Tiger Free Wants to Face Art the Clown in the ‘Terrifier’ Franchise!
Now playing in theaters, better-than-you’d-expect horror prequel The First Omen makes a movie star out of Nell Tiger Free, whose performance in the film has been earning rave reviews across the board. Previously seen in the television series “Servant,” Nell Tiger Free is a big time horror fan, but what franchise would she most like to make her mark on next?
Speaking with Bloody Disgusting’s The Boo Crew Podcast ahead of The First Omen‘s release, Nell Tiger Free revealed that she’d love to play around in the Terrifier franchise!
The actress tells the podcast, “I would honestly jump into pretty much any franchise. I’d be so interested to have a go at being in Terrifier! I wanna face up to Art The Clown! I’m curious!”
Nell Tiger Free also gave a shout-out to Damien Leone’s Terrifier franchise in the latest issue of Fangoria Magazine. She told the mag, “I just watched Terrifier and I think it’s genuinely altered my brain chemistry. It changed, fundamentally, who I am.”
Art the Clown will return in Bloody Disgusting and Cineverse’s Terrifier 3, which is now filming. The franchise’s upcoming third installment will see Art slash his way through Christmas!
Terrifier 3 arrives in theaters nationwide on October 25, 2024.
In director Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3, “Art the Clown unleashes chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.”
You can listen to The Boo Crew’s full chat with Nell Tiger Free down below.
The podcast previews, “We are thrilled to bring you into this conversation with Nell as we do a spoiler free journey into HER story, her genuine passion for the horror genre AND the iconic Omen franchise including her adventure in bringing this nightmare to life.”
We learned earlier this week that “Hannibal” creator Bryan Fuller is no longer the showrunner of A24 and Peacock’s Friday the 13th TV series “Crystal Lake,” with A24 choosing to “go a different way with the material.” What does that mean? It means A24 is still planning on bringing a Friday the 13th series to life, but the overall vision will likely change.
Kevin Williamson (Scream, Sick) had been on board to write an episode of the “Crystal Lake” series, and Williamson took to Twitter today to tease some of those original plans.
Williamson writes, “Bummin’ hard, so sorry I won’t be a part of what would have been an epic Bryan Fuller show. Your pilot was so beautifully realized. A gorgeous portrait of a mother unraveling in her grief. Not to mention bloody horrific!”
He adds, “I was so looking forward to our hour long chase episode!“
Kevin Williamson is of course known for writing incredible slasher movie chase sequences, including the ones seen in the original Scream and Scream 2, as well as I Know What You Did Last Summer and last year’s Sick. It’s hard not to imagine how cool an hour-long Friday the 13th chase episode could be in Williamson’s hands, but alas, it’s not happening anymore.
The silver lining? Williamson is directing the next installment in the Scream franchise.
The director of Cube, Splice and several episodes of “Hannibal,” Vincenzo Natali also took to Twitter this weekend to give us a taste of the “Crystal Lake” series we’ll never see.
Natali tweets, “I have read the first two episodes. Bryan Fuller’s Crystal Lake was well on its way to becoming another Hannibal-level reinvention that was simultaneously beautiful, sad, poetic, funny and horrifying. I mourn its passing.”
A24 and Peacock are now searching for a new showrunner for the series. Stay tuned.
Peacock had given the project a straight-to-series order in 2022, with “Crystal Lake” being described as an “expanded prequel” to the original Friday the 13th franchise featuring both Jason Voorhees and his mother, Pamela Voorhees. Original Friday the 13th final girl Adrienne King had even signed on for a recurring role in the planned A24 television series.
Bummin’ hard, so sorry I won’t be a part of what would have been an epic Bryan Fuller show. Your pilot was so beautifully realized. A gorgeous portait of a mother unraveling in her grief. Not to mention bloody horrific! I was so looking forward to our hour long chase episode!
— Kevin Williamson (@kevwilliamson) May 11, 2024
I have read the first two episodes. @BryanFuller’s Crystal Lake was well on its way to becoming another Hannibal-level reinvention that was simultaneously beautiful, sad, poetic, funny and horrifying. I mourn its passing. https://t.co/ob0kF4MQHM
— Vincenzo Natali (@Vincenzo_Natali) May 11, 2024
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