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A24’s Disaster Comedy ‘Y2K’ Heads to Max Next Month
A24 and Kyle Mooney‘s dial-up disaster comedy Y2K wants you to party like it’s 1999 next month when it heads to streaming.
Y2K makes its streaming debut exclusively on Max on Friday, April 4. The film will debut on HBO linear on Saturday, April 5 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
The disaster comedy explores what if the millenium bug really happened. In the film, “Two high school juniors crash a New Year’s Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.”
Jaeden Martell (It, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone) and Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2) star as the high school friends. Y2K also stars Rachel Zegler (West Side Story), Lachlan Watson (“Chucky,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), Mason Gooding (Scream 2022, Scream VI), The Kid Laroi, Tim Heidecker (Us), Eduardo Franco (“Stranger Things”), Miles Robbins (Daniel Isn’t Real, Halloween 2018), Alicia Silverstone (The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lodge), Fred Hechinger (Fear Street), Daniel Zolghadri (Funny Pages) and Fred Durst.
Y2K hails from actor/comedian/writer and former “SNL “cast member Kyle Mooney, who makes his directorial feature debut from a screenplay co-written with producer Evan Winter.
Mooney previously told Bloody Disgusting of the film’s influences, “We talked a lot about The Faculty. That was definitely a big one. We had references like Shaun of the Dead or Attack the Block. But tonally, we just wanted everything to feel as grounded as possible, and especially in that first act, really lean into the coming of agenesis of it all so that when that turn comes, if you don’t know anything about the movie, that it’s surprising.”
While comedy is the focus here, Mooney’s disaster comedy leans into the genre in a fun way. I wrote in my review, “Playing like Maximum Overdrive for millennials, Weta Workshop brings the various murder bots to life via exquisite practical effects.”
The killer tomatoes are back in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, and the offiical poster for the brand new movie has been unleashed tonight.
Additionally, we’ve learned that the film’s theatrical release is set for this August, with a panel set for San Diego Comic-Con this month featuring the world premiere of the trailer.
While you wait, check out the official poster down below.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence will be released in select cities across the US beginning August 7th in major cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Diego, and others, and expanding to further locations throughout the month.
The fifth installment in the horror-comedy franchise pits the eternal power of nature against AI’s best and brightest.
In Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, a young biotech prodigy develops a revolutionary genetically engineered vegetable designed to solve humanity’s problems. But when the experiment spirals out of control, it unleashes a new generation of killer tomatoes, setting the stage for another outrageous chapter in the long-running cult franchise.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes co-creators Costa Dillon and J. Stephen Peace return to write and executive produce. David Ferino directs.
The film features an ensemble cast led by franchise icon John Astin (The Addams Family), reprising his role as Professor Gangreen, comedy legend David Koechner (Anchorman), Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), horror favorite Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), comedy veteran Dan Bakkedahl (Veep), Myrna Velasco (Star Wars Resistance), Vernée Watson (Shrinking, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), and Paul Bates (Coming to America).
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes launched in 1979, followed by 1988’s Return of the Killer Tomatoes, 1991’s Killer Tomatoes Strike Back, and 1992’s Killer Tomatoes Eat France.
The franchise also spawned an animated series in 1990.
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