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Will Kevin Smith’s Next Be ‘Red State’?
Last October The Weinstein Company passed on Kevin Smith’s horror project, Red State, with everything going silent thereafter. Since then, Smith has directed ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO, which just had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Smith was on hand who made a surprising statement. “First, I’m going to do a 180 turn and do a horror movie called Red State,” Smith told Sci-Fi Wire. “It’s going to be a total horror-political-psychological movie without a funny line in it.” After RED STATE, Smith is working on a superhero movie, which he hopes Seth Rogan will star in.
Theo James Krekis‘ short film Jealous People are Ugly People premiered earlier this year at SXSW and has since inspired a massive bidding war for its feature film expansion.
New Line Cinema has emerged victorious in the latest feeding frenzy over next-generation digital horror IP and its creators, Deadline reports.
Krekis will adapt Jealous People are Ugly People, directing from his own script.
In the short film, “Vasilly has become painfully jealous of his best friend, Luke. But things aren’t going so well for Luke. Every time he shares some good news, he starts to suffer from strange and violent repercussions. Disturbed by the uncanny timing, Vasilly recalls his Yiayia’s warnings about the Greek superstition of the evil eye – and starts to believe his own envy might be to blame for Luke’s bad luck.”
SXSW described the short film as ” a darkly comic psychological thriller about male jealousy, inherited superstition, and the corrosive power of repressed ambition.”
Jennifer Monks and Michelle Stein will produce the feature take alongside Isaac Klausner, John Fischer, Ben Levine and Ethan Cappello. Josh Mack and Lauren Botchan are overseeing for New Line.
Jealous People are Ugly People joins New Line’s upcoming horror slate that also includes Santiago Menghini’s The Revenge of La Llorona on February 26, 2027, and The Conjuring: First Communion on September 10, 2027.