This past Friday, the latest genre project from Jim Mickle, In the Shadow of the Moon, landed on Netflix, and a week prior, the sci-fi thriller celebrated its world premiere at the 2019 Fantastic Fest. Starring Boyd Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman, Bokeem Woodbine, and Michael C. Hall, Shadow centers on a serial killer who appears every nine years to claim their victims, but their crimes don’t seem to logistically add up for police officer Thomas Lockhart (Holbrook), who finds himself in the middle of these perplexing cyclical murders.
While in Austin, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Mickle, and he talked about the journey of getting In the Shadow of the Moon made, the challenges of working with the film’s complex narrative, the ambitious shooting schedule over the course of 40 days, and more.
In the Shadow of the Moon is currently streaming on Netflix.
Great to speak with you again,...
While in Austin, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Mickle, and he talked about the journey of getting In the Shadow of the Moon made, the challenges of working with the film’s complex narrative, the ambitious shooting schedule over the course of 40 days, and more.
In the Shadow of the Moon is currently streaming on Netflix.
Great to speak with you again,...
- 9/30/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The dedicated entertainment junkie now has more options than ever before. So if you’re wondering which logy, derivative, visually pedestrian piece of made-for-Netflix pulp to avoid at all costs this week, it would be hard to top “In the Shadow of the Moon,”
The opening, at least, is a grabber. We see the aftermath of a terrorist bombing in 2024 (it’s staged to look like 9/11 lite), and the film then flashes back 36 years and cuts among three civilians — a diner cook dishing up sausage and peppers, a concert pianist in performance, a bus driver carrying a book about Thomas Jefferson — who all succumb to the same horrific fate. Blood seeps out of their noses, ears, and eyes, gathering into a miniature geyser of gore, until each of them collapses. It’s sort of like the exploding-head scenes in David Cronenberg’s “Scanners” without the serious wow factor.
Thomas Lockhart...
The opening, at least, is a grabber. We see the aftermath of a terrorist bombing in 2024 (it’s staged to look like 9/11 lite), and the film then flashes back 36 years and cuts among three civilians — a diner cook dishing up sausage and peppers, a concert pianist in performance, a bus driver carrying a book about Thomas Jefferson — who all succumb to the same horrific fate. Blood seeps out of their noses, ears, and eyes, gathering into a miniature geyser of gore, until each of them collapses. It’s sort of like the exploding-head scenes in David Cronenberg’s “Scanners” without the serious wow factor.
Thomas Lockhart...
- 9/24/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Joseph Baxter Sep 16, 2019
Boyd Holbrook and Michael C. Hall headline Netflix film In the Shadow of the Moon, a crime thriller with time-bending sci-fi themes.
In the Shadow of the Moon, an upcoming Netflix film, has something to offer to fans of macabre late-20th-century-set crime dramas like the streamer’s David Fincher-developed Mindhunter as well as fans of grittier sci-fi genre offerings like director Rian Johnson’s Looper.
Headlined by rising star Boyd Holbrook, crime drama icon Michael C. Hall and prospective breakout Cleopatra Coleman, the film appears unconcerned with genre boundaries, set in Philadelphia in 1988, showcasing the story of a cop (Holbrook) whose seemingly supernatural encounter with a woman suspected of being a serial killer leads him down the rabbit hole of time travel when she resurfaces in the wake of new killings.
Jim Mickle, creator of SundanceTV’s Hap and Leonard, directed the film working off...
Boyd Holbrook and Michael C. Hall headline Netflix film In the Shadow of the Moon, a crime thriller with time-bending sci-fi themes.
In the Shadow of the Moon, an upcoming Netflix film, has something to offer to fans of macabre late-20th-century-set crime dramas like the streamer’s David Fincher-developed Mindhunter as well as fans of grittier sci-fi genre offerings like director Rian Johnson’s Looper.
Headlined by rising star Boyd Holbrook, crime drama icon Michael C. Hall and prospective breakout Cleopatra Coleman, the film appears unconcerned with genre boundaries, set in Philadelphia in 1988, showcasing the story of a cop (Holbrook) whose seemingly supernatural encounter with a woman suspected of being a serial killer leads him down the rabbit hole of time travel when she resurfaces in the wake of new killings.
Jim Mickle, creator of SundanceTV’s Hap and Leonard, directed the film working off...
- 9/16/2019
- Den of Geek
After eight scintillating seasons as TV’s most compelling serial killer on “Dexter,” Michael C. Hall is playing for the other team. Looking like a grown-up version of Jonathan Groff’s Holden in “Mindhunter,” Hall plays a detective hunting an elusive serial killer in a new thriller debuting on Netflix later this month. Directed by Sundance award-winning director Jim Mickle, “In the Shadow of the Moon” sets out to catch a repeat killer leaving a string of dead bodies with mysterious bite marks on their necks. The recently released trailer promises an intriguing dose of supernatural elements to keep the viewer on their toes.
Here’s the official synopsis: “In 1988, Philadelphia police officer Thomas Lockhart (Boyd Holbrook), hungry to become a detective, begins tracking a serial killer who mysteriously resurfaces every nine years. But when the killer’s crimes begin to defy all scientific explanation, Lock’s obsession with finding...
Here’s the official synopsis: “In 1988, Philadelphia police officer Thomas Lockhart (Boyd Holbrook), hungry to become a detective, begins tracking a serial killer who mysteriously resurfaces every nine years. But when the killer’s crimes begin to defy all scientific explanation, Lock’s obsession with finding...
- 9/16/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Boyd Holbrook fought Wolverine in “Logan,” an alien monster in “The Predator,” and in his new movie “In the Shadow of the Moon,” he’ll fight yet another sort of mutant warrior who can’t be killed.
“In the Shadow of the Moon” is the latest psychological thriller from Netflix, and it combines a gritty, neo-noir mystery with a supernatural element.
Set in Philadelphia in 1988, Holbrook plays a cop who tracks down a serial killer responsible for a strange number of grizzly murders that took place across the city in a short period of time. The perpetrator is a young woman (Cleopatra Coleman), but in their fight, she stumbles in front of a train and is killed. Now every nine years later on the anniversary of the murders, she’s back and committing more atrocities that defy logic, all while Holbrook becomes obsessed in unlocking her secrets.
Also Read: Boyd...
“In the Shadow of the Moon” is the latest psychological thriller from Netflix, and it combines a gritty, neo-noir mystery with a supernatural element.
Set in Philadelphia in 1988, Holbrook plays a cop who tracks down a serial killer responsible for a strange number of grizzly murders that took place across the city in a short period of time. The perpetrator is a young woman (Cleopatra Coleman), but in their fight, she stumbles in front of a train and is killed. Now every nine years later on the anniversary of the murders, she’s back and committing more atrocities that defy logic, all while Holbrook becomes obsessed in unlocking her secrets.
Also Read: Boyd...
- 9/16/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Nick Harley Oct 19, 2016
Writer Jack Thorne and director Marc Munden move from the TV drama National Treasure to sci-fi movie Sovereign...
Sovereign, the upcoming science fiction thriller from director Marc Munden, has found its star in Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
See related Logan: the first trailer, starring Hugh Jackman as Wolverine
Gordon-Levitt has signed on to the project from director Munden, who directed the recent Channel 4 TV miniseries National Treasure. Jack Thorne, who penned lots of things we love - including the aforementioned National Treasure, the TV series The Fades, and Harry Potter And The Cursed Child - has written the latest take on the screenplay.
The script for Sovereign from a draft by Geoff Tock and Gregory Weidman, and will see Gordon-Levitt as a man grasping with the dissolution of his marriage while he struggles to locate the crew of a space station, which includes his wife, after they mysteriously vanish.
Writer Jack Thorne and director Marc Munden move from the TV drama National Treasure to sci-fi movie Sovereign...
Sovereign, the upcoming science fiction thriller from director Marc Munden, has found its star in Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
See related Logan: the first trailer, starring Hugh Jackman as Wolverine
Gordon-Levitt has signed on to the project from director Munden, who directed the recent Channel 4 TV miniseries National Treasure. Jack Thorne, who penned lots of things we love - including the aforementioned National Treasure, the TV series The Fades, and Harry Potter And The Cursed Child - has written the latest take on the screenplay.
The script for Sovereign from a draft by Geoff Tock and Gregory Weidman, and will see Gordon-Levitt as a man grasping with the dissolution of his marriage while he struggles to locate the crew of a space station, which includes his wife, after they mysteriously vanish.
- 10/19/2016
- Den of Geek
Some big things are happening in Leonardo DiCaprio‘s realm. First, Deadline tells us his company, Appian Way, has partnered with Paramount for Truevine, an adaptation of Beth Macy‘s non-fiction tome — subtitled Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest; A True Story of the Jim Crow South — concerning George and Willie Muse, two black brothers who were kidnapped in 1899 and put on display in traveling freak shows across the Jim Crow-dominated south.
It’s positioned as a starring role for DiCaprio, which, given the description, is a bit odd, but there may be a role in the form of (and this would sound so much funnier if the story weren’t so upsetting) “a white man [who] offered them a piece of candy.” A cousin-of-sorts to Django Unchained‘s Calvin (ahem) Candie, perhaps?
The other property Appian Way’s been eyeing is probably much easier to digest as entertainment,...
It’s positioned as a starring role for DiCaprio, which, given the description, is a bit odd, but there may be a role in the form of (and this would sound so much funnier if the story weren’t so upsetting) “a white man [who] offered them a piece of candy.” A cousin-of-sorts to Django Unchained‘s Calvin (ahem) Candie, perhaps?
The other property Appian Way’s been eyeing is probably much easier to digest as entertainment,...
- 10/18/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Broadly speaking, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an actor you can almost always count on to secure a compelling role year in, year out. Since his breakout in Rian Johnson’s Brick, audiences have witnessed that actor chop and change between poignant drama in 50/50, superhero action in The Dark Knight Rises and, more recently, character study for Oliver Stone’s Snowden.
They may not always be winners, but at least you can’t fault Gordon-Levitt for not straying outside his comfort zone, and it looks as though the actor’s latest gig will uphold that streak. It’s called Sovereign, according to Deadline, and is pitched as a sci-fi thriller. Geoff Tock and Gregory Weidman were the brains behind the initial script, though we understand that the so-hot-right-now Jack Thorne has been drafted in to give the screenplay a significant overhaul.
The underlying premise remains relatively unchanged for now, with Gordon-Levitt attached to play man who,...
They may not always be winners, but at least you can’t fault Gordon-Levitt for not straying outside his comfort zone, and it looks as though the actor’s latest gig will uphold that streak. It’s called Sovereign, according to Deadline, and is pitched as a sci-fi thriller. Geoff Tock and Gregory Weidman were the brains behind the initial script, though we understand that the so-hot-right-now Jack Thorne has been drafted in to give the screenplay a significant overhaul.
The underlying premise remains relatively unchanged for now, with Gordon-Levitt attached to play man who,...
- 10/18/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to star in sci-fi thriller Sovereign, directed by British filmmaker Marc Munden. Arrival producers Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and Dan Cohen are producing through their 21 Laps Entertainment banner while Nick Meyer's Sierra/Affinity is financing the project and will oversee international sales. Jack Thorne, one of the UK's most in-demand writers, is doing a re-write of the script, which was first crafted by Geoff Tock and Gregory Weidman…...
- 10/18/2016
- Deadline
Exclusive: Sierra/Affinity has picked up the worldwide rights to Sovereign, a sci-fi thriller written by Geoff Tock & Gregory Weidman. Marc Munden will direct with 21 Laps' Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and Dan Cohen producing. Nick Meyer and Mark Schaberg will executive produce along with Kelly McCormick who is overseeing the project with Josie Liang for Sierra/Affinity. Wme Global will broker the domestic deal. A mixture between cerebral sci-fi films such as 2001 and Solaris…...
- 3/15/2016
- Deadline
Recently, CBS revealed the new,official synopsis/description for their upcoming "Limitless" episode 16 of season 1. The episode is entitled, "Sands Agent Of Morra," and it turns out that we're going to see some very intriguing and startling stuff go down as Brian learns some new, shocking and violent things about Sands' past. Then Brian's side mission gets kept secret by a lot of work on his sister's part, and more! In the new, 16th episode press release: When Sands' Past Sins Catch Up With Him, He Enlists Brian's Help With A Life-or-death Situation That Must Be Kept Secret From Senator Morra. Press release number 2: When Sands (Colin Salmon), Senator Morra's deadly representative, enlists Brian's help to eliminate an immediate threat he needs to keep secret from the politician, Brian will end up discovering details about Sands' dangerous and startling past. Also, Brian's sister, Rachel (Megan Guinan), is going to...
- 2/16/2016
- by Megan
- OnTheFlix
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