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NBA Star Jermaine O’Neal Get Behind ‘David’
Who would have known NBA star Jermaine O’Neal was such a horror buff? The star of the Toronto Raptors is helping fund two upcoming horror flicks,, both slated to go behind the camera early next year. Beyond the break you can read a bit more about Chris White’s David, which was first announced here. The article also reveals that O’Neal is producing My Place in the Horror, which was first mentioned on B-D a week ago.
If Jermaine O’Neal’s mother knew what kind of movies her son was funding, she’d be, well, horrified.
O’Neal is serving as co-producer for a Los Angeles company that has two scary flicks in the works.
“When we were kids, my mom never let us out on Halloween to trick or treat,” O’Neal said with a laugh. “She thought that it was celebrating the devil. So I missed out on that. But I did sneak out to see some of those movies.”
The first film, titled David, is due out next year.
“It’s about a doll who drives a family crazy,” O’Neal said. “It’s the kind of film that’s a throwback to the ’80s that terrified people. You’ll be wondering about things that go bump in the night and be frightened about someone cutting the lights.”
The second film is My Place In The Horror, with details to come.
O’Neal also has given some consideration to acting.
“He has received some offers, but I don’t want to say from whom,” O’Neal’s business manager Deddrick Faison said. “All this past summer was spent getting into shape from his knee injury, so there wasn’t a lot of time he could devote to other things. Once he gets into Toronto and gets settled, we might look again. But he has dabbled in the entertainment industry before.”
O’Neal once financed a recording studio and served as its CEO in part to support some childhood friends’ business venture. But he cut ties when his enthusiasm for the project began to wane.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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