Темная армия (Dark Army)

Фиг название у Снайдера стрельнул?

Энифэй, один из самых любимых режиссёров, Ласт крисмас и Симпл Фэйвор сразили наповал и даже к гоустбастерам отношусь нормально. Да и всякие извращения юниверсала со своей тёмной вселенной очень интересуют. Так что весьма ожидаемо.

Все никак не угомонятся. И хочется, и колется им.)

С этими монстрами - лучше всего пилить малобюджетную хоррор вселенную на манер Заклятия. Блум с Уонеллом это уже смеканули.

Пол Фиг в интервью Collider

Feig has been developing Dark Army for a little while and has now written two drafts of the script. The story is said to involve both classic monster characters and new characters, and the A Simple Favor and Spy filmmaker intends for the film to be in lockstep with the classic Universal monster movies of the 1930s. When Feig was on our remote interview series Collider Connected recently to talk about his career and the upcoming HBO Max series Love Life (which he produced), he provided an update on Dark Army and said Universal is still deciding how it wants to proceed:

“Well I’ve done two drafts and I love it, it’s one of my favorites scripts I’ve ever written. Universal, they’re not quite sure what they’re doing right now. Because Invisible Man did really well on a very micro budget, and my movie’s a little more expensive than that. So I’m hoping to God we get to make it, because I just absolutely love it. I’m so thrilled with it.”

Feig has quickly emerged as a filmmaker extremely capable at working in very different genres. He first broke out with comedies like Bridesmaids and The Heat, but he proved adept at handling vibrant visual effects with the underrated Ghostbusters, and crafted a full-on Hitchcockian thriller with A Simple Favor. But for Dark Army, Feig doesn’t want to go the horror movie route:

“Tonally I’m being very true to the traditional monster movie genre. Not horror movie, monster movie. I love those movies of the 30s, the James Whale movies, [and] Bride of Frankenstein I still think is one of the greatest films of all time. So I want that tone because those movies were very fun. They treated them seriously, but you also know they were also having a lot of fun with them, so there are a lot of extreme characters in them and funny side characters. That’s what I want, I never wanted to make a horror movie. I want to make a true monster movie.”

And for Feig, who has always kept character front and center in all of his films and TV shows, Dark Army is a film about outsiders:

“To me, it’s about outsiders. Those monster movies, a lot of them were directed by gay directors, and I’ve read a lot about how these monsters represented outsiders in society and how they felt and all that. So that kind of realism and the emotions of it are very important to me. It’s not just scaring people, it’s how do you invest in these situations and these characters? You know, Frankenstein is such a tragic character. That’s the kind of feel I want with this. It’ll be funny, but it’s not a spoof. It’s fun and funny in the interactions of these characters, but the situations are very real and serious. I hope we get to make it. Who knows what’s happening? Right now everything is in turmoil because of the virus.”

Пол Фиг в интервью Collider

"Oh, 'Dark Army'. I love that project so much. I think the studio thinks it’s a little too expensive, perhaps. God as my witness, I’m gonna make that movie. I’m so obsessed with making that movie. One of the many reasons why I was drawn to doing this current Netflix is that there’s a lot of stuff I can work out in it, as far as effects and all that, that I can bring to 'Dark Army'. I love it. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever written. It’s one of my favorite lead characters I’ve ever come up with. So, fingers crossed that we will make it someday."

Feig's answer definitely resets our Dark Army expectations. While it doesn't sound like the project has been shelved for good, it does sound like we'll have to wait longer than we hoped to see the movie finally get made. In the meantime, Feig will be getting to work on directing an adaptation of Soman Chainani’s New York Times bestselling debut novel The School for Good and Evil for Netflix.

В данный момент, Пол Фиг переписывает сценарий, чтобы немного уменьшить масштаб

“Yeah there is [positive momentum on Dark Army]. I’m desperate to do it. Universal had a moment of pause because I think it seemed a little too expensive at the scope that I did it at, so I’m going to go in and do a rewrite to kind of bring it down. I mean the scope will still be big, but I actually think they were right, I think I was trying to bite off more than I probably should for what I would hope would be the first installment in something I want to carry on, so I’m rewriting that right now and fingers crossed that could be the next thing I could do. That’s the genre that I’ve been wanting to do forever, just a classic monster movie. Not a horror movie, but a classic monster movie in the tradition of the James Whale and Tod Browning movies. So yeah, hopefully that will be up next.”