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Sarah Paulson and Ryan Murphy Team Up for Nurse Ratched Prequel Story
You often hear stories of a director’s muse – an actor or actress that they turn to again and again for inspiration and collaboration; Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. But you have to imagine that this isn’t a trend that’s restricted to film, and Ryan Murphy and Sarah Paulson seem to be a prime example of that.
It all started with Paulson’s guest spot on Nip/Tuck as a woman who believed she was suffering from stigmata. Since then, the two have paired up on every season of American Horror Story and American Crime Story. Sarah Paulson has been nominated for five Emmy Awards for her work with Murphy – winning one for her performance as Marcia Clark on American Crime Story.
In a recent interview with Adweek, Paulson stated that she’s “not interested in any TV shows that Murphy isn’t involved with”.
“There are great creators out there, absolutely, but I have found a home in the sense that I work for a person who sees me completely, knows my strengths and weaknesses, knows how to push me and keeps throwing me the ball”
This small-screen dynamic duo are set to work once again on Ratched, an origin story for the malevolent Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
As reported by Deadline, the speculative script was written by Evan Romansky who was fresh out of film school when the screenplay landed on Ryan Murphy’s desk. Murphy then spent a year securing the rights to the character of Nurse Ratched before they could move forward.
After a reportedly heated bidding war between Hulu, Netflix, and Apple, Netflix took claim of the show and has already signed on for a two season, eighteen episode, straight-to-Netflix deal. Michael Douglas – who produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – will executive produce the show along with Murphy.
The series begins in 1947 and follows Nurse Ratched on her career evolution from caregiver to authoritarian tyrant. We’ll track her progression through the mental health care system and watch her grow into a vicious and legendary villain.
Sarah Paulson, surely, is up to the task. She has incredible range as a performer and I can fully imagine how well she’ll be able to play every possible angle of an up-and-coming monster.
Written in 1962, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was adapted into a film in 1975. It won a total of five Academy Awards, including best actress for Louise Fletcher’s portrayal of Nurse Ratched. Her cruelty was so iconic that the character was named the fifth greatest villain by the American Film Institute on their list of 100 Greatest Heroes and Villains in 2003.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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