Author/director M. Night time Shyamalan pitches his new thriller Lure as, “What if The Silence of the Lambs happened at a Taylor Swift concert?”
Initially of 2023, filmmaker M. Night time Shyamalan secured a multi-year deal with Warner Bros., and shortly after that deal was made, we heard that his first film for Warner Bros. could be Lure, a “psychological thriller set at a concert”. That challenge made its means by manufacturing towards the top of final 12 months, with lead roles going to Josh Hartnett, recent off his look in Oppenheimer, and Shyamalan’s daughter Saleka. The movie is now set to obtain a world launch on July 31st, with its home launch to observe on August 2nd – and throughout an interview with Empire, Shyamalan revealed his pitch for the movie is, “What if The Silence of the Lambs happened at a Taylor Swift concert?”
Lure has a brief and easy synopsis: A father and teenage daughter attend a pop live performance, the place they understand they’re on the heart of a darkish and sinister occasion.
For a greater description, we flip to what JoBlo’s personal Chris Bumbray stated concerning the first Lure trailer after seeing an early screening of it at CinemaCon, “Saleka plays a Taylor Swift-style pop star known as Lady Raven, with Josh Harnett’s character attending alongside his daughter. He quickly discovers that the concert is a trap designed to lure a serial killer known as The Butcher, but it turns out that Harnett is the serial killer!” We had beforehand heard (by way of FilmUpdates) that Saleka – who’s an R&B singer/songwriter – performs “a popstar whose concert is at the heart of the story.” Hartnett’s character is “a father who takes his child to a concert, and unwittingly gets caught up in the surrounding events.” Saleka has recorded songs for her father’s earlier initiatives Previous and Servant, however this marks her appearing debut.
Hartnett has stated that Lure is “very bizarre, very dark, and wild.”
Shyamalan additionally revealed to Empire that Lure was impressed by Operation Flagship, “a 1985 plot in which several fugitives were offered free NFL tickets, and the chance to win an all-expenses-paid Super Bowl trip. Except, 100-odd hopefuls attended and discovered that it was a sting operation.” As Shyamalan defined, “It was hilarious. The cops were literally cheerleaders and mascots. These guys were dancing as they came in. And they were all caught. It was so twisted and funny.” However as an alternative of creating his film humorous, he geared toward making it very scary and Hitchcockian.
Since Shyamalan produces and funds his personal motion pictures, he was capable of get a SAG interim settlement for Lure (which filmed beneath the codename Good Grades) that allowed the challenge to enter manufacturing earlier than the Display screen Actors Guild strike wrapped up. His daughter Ishana was additionally capable of get a SAG Interim deal for her function directorial debut, the gothic fairy story The Watchers. That movie was arrange at Warner Bros. as effectively, and was launched final month.
Right here’s what Shyamalan needed to say about Lure in an interview he did with NME some time again: “I’ve a brand new concept that I’ve began writing. It’s out in 2024 and it’s very, very thrilling. It’s a thriller. It’s very uncommon and really new in comparison with what I’ve been attempting to do [recently], however I’m feeling very excited concerning the story, a lot in order that I can’t wait to inform it to you guys. I like that feeling, that electrical energy of ‘wow, I can’t wait so that you can see it’. I’ll say this, the angle into the story is why it’s so thrilling. The story is likely to be one thing that you just’ve seen earlier than however the angle may be very, very distinctive – the perspective.“
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