A New Tackle The Fly Is Coming From a Very Intriguing Director

A recent reminder of the freaky outcomes that come from tampering with nature is on the best way, as Nikyatu Jusu—who made glorious 2022 folk-horror story Nanny—is engaged on a brand new model of The Fly. In keeping with Deadline, which broke the information, her movie will likely be “set within the universe of [David Cronenberg’s] movie,” and gained’t be a straight remake. Jusu will direct and pen the script.

Deadline stated the plot is “beneath wraps,” but when it’s primarily based on David Cronenberg‘s 1986 traditional, which gained an Oscar for its ooey-gooey make-up results, we are able to guess there will likely be loads of physique horror in retailer for audiences.

Cronenberg’s movie additionally pokes into themes involving the cutthroat world of scientific discoveries and shady companies funding out-there analysis, and makes nice use of the chemistry between then-married leads Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. (Say it with me: “Cheeseburger!”) Cronenberg’s The Fly was itself impressed by a pair of Fifties releases: George Langelaan’s quick story, and the 1958 movie starring Vincent Worth.

The Fly is simply the newest horror undertaking that Jusu has taken on; as Deadline reminds us, she first spoke of increasing her 2019 quick movie Suicide by Daylight, which is about Black vampires, in 2022. Additionally in 2022, we realized she was going to direct a Night of the Living Dead sequel—although there’s been no current replace on both undertaking these days.

Nonetheless, late final week we realized the Brad Anderson-directed Twilight of the Lifeless, the ultimate George A. Romero film within the late horror grasp’s zombie sequence, simply took a giant step ahead by asserting Milla Jovovich and Betty Gabriel as its stars.

Deadline advised Jusu’s The Fly is advancing thanks partly to a renewed curiosity in physique horror—courtesy of present Demi Moore hit The Substance. What do you consider The Fly buzzing again round once more?

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