After shocking audiences with 1986’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, actor Michael Rooker and director John McNaughton are set to reunite for the vigilante thriller Road Rage.
Intended as the first in a series, the film will see Rooker playing another serial killer, although unlike Henry, this one ” only kills those who deserve to die—presenting a modern hero who is a bad guy gone good, protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty.”
“I’d wanted to work with Michael Rooker again since, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, but we never got the chance,” said McNaughton (via Deadline). “Finally, I wrote a story that took the genre in a whole new direction. Michael Rooker as Stony; he drives a truck… and kills people. Stony is the ultimate serial killer… with a twist, and he’s going home now after twenty years to settle a score from the past.”
“With Road Rage, John McNaughton and Michael Rooker aim once again to create a transgressive and shocking film that will exist at the cutting edge of art and genre,” said producer Tim Perell of Process Media. “As Henry was ahead of its time, so Road Rage will be ahead of this time; both a disturbing and exhilarating reflection of contemporary American culture.”
As well as franchise hopes for the film, Process Media is also teaming with iNK Stories to develop a Road Rage video game, with iNK Stories’ Navid Khonsari and Vassiliki Khonsari stating that: “We are excited to work with John and Tim on developing a genre-bending game, with a feminist perspective on the American phenomenon of a serial killer.”
