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‘Things Will Be Different’ Acquired by Magnet Releasing for October Release
Writer/Director/Editor Michael Felker’s feature directorial debut, Things Will Be Different, introduces a twisty sci-fi thriller produced by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Spring, The Endless) that received critical acclaim during its festival run earlier this year. Today, Deadline reports that the film has been acquired for a Halloween season release.
Magnet Releasing has set a theatrical day-and-date release for Things Will Be Different on October 4, 2024.
The film follows “estranged siblings who, after a robbery, escape to a rural safe house hidden in time and discover they’re not the only occupants.”
Adam David Thompson and Riley Dandy star in Things Will Be Different. They play siblings Joseph and Sidney, who are on the run from the law at the start of the film. Chloe Skoczen, Justin Benson, Jori Lynn Felker, and Sarah Bolger also star.
Writer/Director/Editor Michael Felker knows his way around time-shifting, metaphysical labors of love, having edited Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s Something in the Dirt, Synchronic, The Endless, and Spring. Felker’s debut seamlessly fits into the Benson/Moorhead cinematic universe, introducing a fractured sibling relationship put through the physical and emotional wringer when they play with forces they don’t quite understand.
“Dave Lawson and Aaron Moorhead are also in the movie as well. They have a very small cameo because we almost had them on the shoot, and then schedules be what they may. So we found a way to get them in. But for us, I was an extra in Resolution. I was an extra that may have been kind of cut in The Endless. I don’t know if I was in Synchronic. I was in Something in the Dirt as myself at one point in that movie, not to spoil that part too much. We are always using each other as resources,” Felker told Bloody Disgusting previously in an interview.
I wrote in my SXSW review that the film “is an accomplished, affecting feature directorial debut that smartly uses its time concept to give a pair of morally skewed siblings a chance to rewrite the past for the sake of a better future. It’s in the space in between where Felker effectively tests familial bonds to their limit through genre conventions.”
Maika Monroe (Longlegs) isn’t the only one reuniting with It Follows director David Robert Mitchell on the sequel They Follow. The filmmaker revealed key collaborators are also joining the project.
Speaking with Empire, Mitchell confirmed that multiple crew members are returning for the sequel, and that it’ll feature a new score from Disasterpeace!
“Maika is back for this, and [cinematographer] Mike [Gioulakis], and the editor, Julio [C. Perez IV],” Mitchell told the outlet. “Disasterpeace will be doing a score.“
That’s great news, considering how impactful the artist’s score was on the original 2014 film. Mitchell agrees: “I wouldn’t want to do a sequel without him. That first movie is so much to do with his fantastic music, so I’m excited about seeing what he does with this.”
The filmmaker notes that he’s also proud of his script for They Follow, which will do its own thing while still being connected to the original film. Of course, plot details remain scarce at this time.
“It’s very dark,” Monroe recently teased. “We’re pushing the boundaries on this one for sure.”
In the first movie, Maika Monroe’s Jay Height is a young woman followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter. In the sequel, the threat is now EVERYWHERE.
Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice) is reportedly joining the sequel.
NEON and Good Fear Content are producing They Follow.