Ben Wheatley’s career is set for a major boost with upcoming projects such as Netflix’s “Rebecca” remake and the Alica Vikander-starring “Tomb Raider” sequel, but there’s a secret third project the writer-director cooked up in quarantine over the summer. Wheatley confirms to Little White Lies that he shot a horror movie over 15 days in August in the middle of his coronavirus lockdown.
While Wheatley isn’t ready to share any further details about his mysterious new horror movie, Little White Lies notes the director “describes the film as a response to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the result of a datedness that he perceived in the titles released to VOD that couldn’t take the new status quo into account.”
“I’ve said it a lot, but I think I’ve always seen it as there being genres of subject but also genres of budget, and those genres of budget are micro-budget,...
While Wheatley isn’t ready to share any further details about his mysterious new horror movie, Little White Lies notes the director “describes the film as a response to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the result of a datedness that he perceived in the titles released to VOD that couldn’t take the new status quo into account.”
“I’ve said it a lot, but I think I’ve always seen it as there being genres of subject but also genres of budget, and those genres of budget are micro-budget,...
- 9/30/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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