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Bill Camp & Bruce Greenwood to Star in Serial Killer Thriller ‘Hyde’
Bill Camp (“The Outsider”) and Bruce Greenwood (“The Fall of the House of Usher”) are set to star in the serial killer thriller Hyde, Variety has learned.
Graham & Parker Phillips (Rumble Through the Dark) are writing and directing the film, which sounds like it could be a spin on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Camp stars as Grimes, a detective who descends into the rotting heart of a decaying metropolis to hunt a serial killer. Greenwood plays the therapist that Grimes is mandated to see, which helps him realize the person he’s chasing may be closer than he imagined.
The Phillips brothers will produce for Phillips Pictures alongside Jason Tamasco and Zak Kristofek for Traction and Cassian Elwes (Dallas Buyers Club, Knock Knock). Keith Danko will serve as executive producer.
“We couldn’t be more inspired to have Bill and Bruce on board,” the Phillips brothes said. “They are world-class actors and true collaborators who immediately understood what this film wanted to be. From the moment they joined the project, they elevated the material — challenging us, pushing the work forward, and reaffirming that film is a joyfully collaborative medium, a fact that can be occasionally muddied when working with your brother.”
“We fell in love with this script immediately,” added Tamasco and Kristofek. “It’s haunting, meticulous and deeply unsettling in the best way. Graham and Parker have such a clear, fearless vision for the material, and it’s been incredibly exciting to watch it take shape. Bringing Bill Camp and Bruce Greenwood together in this world is something we are especially thrilled about. They’re two extraordinary actors and seeing them collide on screen is going to be something special.”
Hyde is slated to enter production in May in Bucharest, Romania.
Bill Camp in “The Outsider”
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‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Is No Fan of Generative AI: “Defeats the Purpose Entirely for Me”
There has been a lot of talk recently about filmmakers embracing generative AI as part of the filmmaking process, from Darren Aronofsky to Martin Scorsese. But what about filmmakers that are against the use of Gen AI for creative pursuits? You can count 20-year-old Backrooms director Kane Parsons among that group, which should give you some hope for the future.
In a new chat with The Australian, the self-taught young filmmaker makes it crystal clear that he won’t be using generative AI in any of his upcoming filmmaking projects.
“I think I’m in the same boat as most well-adjusted people,” Parsons tells the outlet. “If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would. Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me.”
“What interests me more is interrogating it artistically,” Parsons notes. “We already live in a world where you walk outside and there are billboards and signs that are obvious AI slop. That’s become part of our visual reality. To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot.”
He explains, “I’m interested in using that iconography in art – not using AI to make the art itself, but examining what it represents. I definitely want to explore it further in future projects.”
Kane Parsons also notes during the interview with The Australian, “… there’s so much at stake and so many genuinely harmful consequences already happening.”
Backrooms marks young prodigy Kane Parsons’ feature directorial debut, and it’s based on his own series of YouTube videos that were brought to life using Blender, the open-source 3D computer graphics software suite. So it’s no surprise that Parsons, who has hand-made his filmmaking career up to this point, isn’t buying into the hoopla around Generative AI.
His debut feature is the #1 movie in the world, so perhaps he’s onto something.
What’s next from Kane Parsons, you ask? Stay tuned…
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