Stephen King’s The Monkey film adaptation will take a different approach, according to director Osgood Perkins.
Theo Jameswill produce the film through his Atomic Monster banner, with Perkins — the filmmaker behind The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, and Gretel & Hansel — serving as the film’s writer and director.recent website featuring graphic details about the titular fictional serial killer’s victims
Though The Monkey is also a horror feature, it will feel less like Longlegs, according to Perkins. During his recent appearance on“It’s gonna feel more like Misery or Creepshow or Gremlins or American Werewolf. It couldn’t be less like Longlegs. To me, if you’re gonna make a movie about a toy monkey, you can be serious about it. But so much of King is funny and nostalgic feeling. So we tried to make a movie that felt a little bit more like something from the late ’80s – ’90s.
He continued, “For me, ideally it’s the movie that kids and their parents wanna go see together. People blow up, people explode; it’s very extreme but it’s very funny. It’s very father-son redemption, it’s very touching, it’s very nostalgic, it’s very Stephen King.”The plot will center on twin brothers Hal and Bill, whose possession of their father’s old toy monkey resulted in a number of horrifying incidents.
“When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them,” the logline for The Monkey reads.
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