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Deal Struck for Ass-Kicking Teen Exorcist Film ‘Realm’
Sick of exorcism movies yet? Well how about an ass-kicking teenage exorcist in the vein of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? I hope you were sitting down when you read that.
Deadline is reporting that the Rebecca Sonnenshine spec script Realm has been purchased by Relativity Media for a mid-six figure sum. If the teenage angle didn’t tickle your fancy, they’re bringing in Step Up 4 director Scott Speer, who will also executive produce.
The deal comes on the heels of Speer’s short, which he released online two weeks ago. The short stars Adelaide Kane (The Purge), who has the power to enter the soul of the possessed to rumble with their inner demon. Here she fights a demon with Baraka-like claws while wearing some Underworld style gear. Judging from this, Realm is gearing up to be light on horror with lots of hollow video game style. The concept is fairly interesting, but the execution in the short leaves a lot to be desired.
One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.
With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.
Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…
“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”
If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.
Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.
Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”
Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.
Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.
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