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‘Swiss Army Man’ Poster Soars to Uniqueness
Daniel Radcliffe’s corpse farting is the least bizarre thing about the trailer for Swiss Army Man, acquired by A24 out of the Sundance Film Festival for release on June 24th.
Now, A24 released a new one-sheet that features Paul Dano as a man who comes across a corpse (Radcliffe) that comes to life. The two soar to the heavens on the poster that boasts the film’s uniqueness.
Fred Topel reviewed the film out of Sundance, where he stated:
“This is what I love movies for. When I hear an outrageous, bizarre idea, I want to see how that director pulls it off.”
Swiss Army Man is the directorial debut of music video duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who clearly had a unique vision that explodes onto the screen.
The Thing and 10 Cloverfield Lane‘s Mary Elizabeth Winstead also stars.
The film was produced by Jonathan Wang, Lawrence Inglee, Miranda Bailey, Amanda Marshall, Eyal Rimmon and Lauren Mann. Executive producers are Gideon Tadmor, William Olsson and Jim Kaufman.
Final Destination Bloodlines filmmakers Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein return to their mutant roots with Freaks Part II, their follow-up to 2018’s Freaks. The first look has arrived ahead of the film’s world premiere.
Freaks Part II is the official closing film of Fantasia, where it will make its world premiere.
In the sequel, “Several years after a traumatic escape, we meet Mary (Amanda Crew, Freaks) and her daughter Chloe (Lorelei Olivia Mote, Riddle of Fire) as they live on the road, hiding their powers and identities. They are hunted by the Abnormal Defense Force, paramilitary police that specialize in ruthlessly exterminating ‘freaks‘ like them. Mary is fueled by revenge, determined to find the ADF officer (Lili Taylor, The Conjuring) who killed her first child.“
It’s not just the story that’s progressing with this sequel, but also the gore. Fantasia teases, “There’s also inventive gore – the most we’ve seen in a Canadian film in years – that punctuates the outstanding performances and serious subject matter.”
Mote takes over for Lexy Kolker, who played Chloe in the 2018 film that saw the young protagonist with growing powers confined to her home by an overprotective and paranoid father (Emile Hirsch).
Rafael Motamayor wrote in his review, “Freaks feels like an even more grounded, small-scale version of the X-Men, a sci-fi film filled with surprises, a message about parenthood and wanting to keep your child safe and isolated from the world, and a future star in Lexy Kolker.”
Lipovsky & Stein’s have a packed slate ahead, co-writing Gremlins 3 with Chris Columbus, directing the sci-fi survival film The Earthling for Columbia, directing the psychological horror film Long Lost for Amblin, and directing the sci-fi drama The Traveler for Paramount.
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