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J.J. Abrams’ ‘Overlord’ Sounds Like “Wolfenstein”!

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Have you ever dreamed of a feature version of the video game “Wolfenstein”? The closest we ever got was the insanely bloody finale to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

The whole Nazi-scientist subgenre thing never works out. It always comes off cheesy or rings false. The best case scenario is something like iron Sky, you know, where Hitler rides a dinosaur.

It takes a true visionary to deliver something on this scale, which is why it’s pretty damn exciting that J.J. Abrams is getting behind the World War II pic Overlord. It will be produced by his Bad Robot and Paramount Pictures.

Julius Avery, who directed A24’s Son of a Gun is at the helm of Overlord, which was penned by Billy Ray from an idea he had with Abrams. The Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith has done a slight polish on the draft with Abrams producing for Bad Robot.

Check out this crazed synopsis:

The story follows two paratroopers who are caught behind enemy lines after their plane crashes on a mission to destroy a German Radio Tower in a small town outside of Normandy during the D-Day invasion. After reaching their target, the two paratroopers come to realize that besides fighting off Nazi soldiers, they also must combat against supernatural forces that are a result of a secret Nazi experiment.

Hopefully casting gets underway ASAP as I can’t wait another second for this…

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‘Strange Darling’ Trailer – Kyle Gallner and Willa Fitzgerald Star in Critically Acclaimed Thriller

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Fresh off the film’s premiere at Fantastic Fest, Strange Darling starring Kyle Gallner is headed our way courtesy of Magenta Light Studios, and the trailer has arrived today.

Strange Darling will release in theaters August 23, 2024. Watch the official trailer below, which is loaded with rave reviews including high praise from filmmaker Mike Flanagan!

Flanagan calls the upcoming film “sublimely brilliant.”

“We are thrilled to be bringing nationwide theatrical audiences this unique and exceptional film with terrific performances by Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner. This second feature from talented writer-director JT Mollner is destined to become a cult classic that defies conventional storytelling,” Magenta Light’s Bob Yari said in a recent statement.

Strange Darling is currently 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 14 reviews, one of which comes courtesy of Trace Thurman right here on Bloody Disgusting. Trace reviewed the film out of Fantastic Fest, giving the cat-and-mouse thriller a 3.5/5 star rating.

Trace writes, “Writer/director JT Mollner’s Strange Darling [is] a film that dares us to question the roles men and women are expected to play.” He goes on to say that the film ends up being “a smarter-than-you’d-expect entry into the cat and mouse thriller genre.”

“What we are left with is a grim little thriller whose lofty ambitions prove to be too much for it in the end, but you’ve got to give it credit for trying,” Trace also notes in his review.

Distributed by Magenta Light Studios, Strange Darling is a Miramax and Spooky Pictures Production. The film is produced by Bill Block, Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Giovanni Ribisi and Chris Ivan Cevic, with Giovanni Ribisi also serving as the Director of Photography.

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