Darren Lynn Bousman is a busy man. After making his directorial debut on Saw II back in 2005, he has gone on to helm two more Saw sequels, the sci-fi horror musical Repo! the Genetic Opera, a remake of Mother’s Day, and is currently in post on the religious thriller 11-11-11.
He has also been attached to quite a few projects, most notably the insane 3-D bloodbath simply known as Ninety, a story by Scott Milam that follows a serial killer who sets out to kill a total of 90 people in 90 minutes. What more could a horror hound want?
Already looking past 11-11-11, Bousman opened up on the project. Deets inside.
“It’s psychotic and it’s crazy,” Bousman tells This Week In. “I wanted to do a movie that’s fun. ‘Repo!’ was fun, and I think that translated well into the movie. ’11-11-11′ and ‘Mother’s Day’ are not fun movies. ‘Ninety’ is fun. It’s 90 kills in 90 minutes. Done. Sold. Buy my ticket. We’re talking unique kills, too; it’s not like I just put ninety people in a room and dropped a bomb. The script is from Scott Milam, who also wrote ‘Mother’s Day.’ It’s a cross between ‘Natural Born Killers,’ ‘True Romance,’ and something a little more lighthearted.”
Bousman continues, “When you’re going to kill ninety people in a movie, after a while it could become monotonous. You’ll feel like, “Okay, I’ve seen this. I’m done.” To combat that, we’re going out of our way to make our killer cool and badass, like Mickey and Mallory were in ‘NBK.’ You’ll see the movie and just want to be the killer. Obviously we don’t want anyone to ever emulate being a killer as obviously that’s wrong, but we made sure our guy is just very likable. There’s two times that you’ll even want to high-five him.”
Speaking on what’s potentially next, Bousman explains: “I’ll be shooting a little surprise between ’11-11-11′ and the next thing. I’ve also sold another horror film that I’ve written that we may fast-track and move quickly into. It’s a monster movie. Another kind of exploratory thing that I’d like to do.”
A surprise and a monster movie? If only Eli Roth would pump out horror films this quickly…