Roger Corman Wants To Get Bloody AND Political
Jonathan Barkan
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Oh, Roger Corman… You never fail to go for the absurd and extreme, do you?
The acclaimed cult and B-horror director revealed this past weekend at the Overlook Film Festival that he wants to make a movie based on Rodrigo Duterte, the ultra violent President of the Philippines who has used an anti-drug crackdown to kill a reported 7,000+ people. Corman’s film, tentatively titled Death Squad, will take place in, you guessed it, a post-apocalyptic world where a dictator uses his power to order the deaths of those he deems criminals, which also includes anyone who doesn’t go along with his plan.
Speaking with Indiewire, Corman explains that he’d like for this film to have a slightly higher budget than normal but that he’d still be comfortable with a relatively small amount.
In regards to the film, he explains that the dictator isn’t necessarily a bad guy, he just loses himself in the power he wields. “As he gets into it, he finds there’s an opposition to what he’s doing and he starts to say, ‘Well, that guy is against me. I think he’s a criminal. Let’s kill him.’ He starts saying he’s going to kill the criminals and ends up saying I’m going to kill anybody who resists me, but in his mind, it’s the same rationale…he’s expanding his interpretation of what a killer is,” Corman states.
Corman is also hard at work on Piranha JPN: Teeth of the Piranha, Japan’s take on the Piranha franchise.
Alright, so this isn’t Rodrigo Duterte but Immortan Joe is a post-apocalyptic dictator. It works, okay?
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