New Zealand-based demonic heavy metal gore fest
Deathgasm was one of my favorite movies of 2015. It’s like
everything I love all in one place. Director Jason Lei Howden just lined up his
second feature, an action comedy also steeped in violence, called Guns
Akimbo. And he’s teaming up with Harry Potter himself, DanielRadcliff, to star.
Variety reports that the former teen wizard has signed up
for Guns Akimbo and that Altitude Films and Occupant
Entertainment will try to convince people to invest money in this picture at
Cannes. Here’s hoping they’re wildly successful. If I had any money, I’d gladly
hand it all over to them.
Currently in the pre-production process, Howden wrote the script,
and it sounds like something that sprang from the mind of the dude who wrote a
movie called Deathgasm. The plot revolves around a guy named
Miles, Radcliffe’s character, who’s forced to participate in underground fights
streamed on a dark website. He “must fight a heavily armed Nix and also save
his girlfriend.” I don’t know who Nix is, but that sounds grim and intense. I’m
curious to see where the “comedy” portion of the program comes in, but remember,
this comes from a man who made a demonic war for the fate of the world funny as
hell, so I’m game.
After Deathgasm, I’m totally pumped to
see what Howden has in store for an encore. And Daniel Radcliffe’s
post-Harry Potter career continues to be weird as fuck and
all the more awesome for it. Just last year he played a farting animated corpse
in Swiss Army Man (which I finally watched, and which is
sublime), an FBI agent undercover in an ultraviolent skinhead gang, and a
magician, I guess, in Now You See Me 2. I didn’t see it.
Every choice seems to scream, “I’m Harry Potter-rich,
motherfuckers, I can’t do whatever the hell I want. Come at me!”
I don’t know when Guns Akimbo will come
our way, but I want it to be now. There’s bound to be so much blood spatter.
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