Deadline is reporting that Her Smell director Alex Ross Perry is set to helm a feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1989 bestseller The Dark Half for MGM. Previously adapted for the big screen by horror legend George A. Romero in 1989, The Dark Half follows Thad Beaumont, an author of highbrow literary novels who […]
Movie Review – Her Smell (2019)
Her Smell, 2019. Written and Directed by Alex Ross Perry. Starring Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn, Gayle Rankin, Ashley Benson, Eric Stoltz, Dylan Gelula, Virginia Madsen, Lindsay Burdge, Alexis Krauss, Eka Darville, Keith Poulson, and Amber Heard. SYNOPSIS: A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration […]
Alex Ross Perry to adapt Stephen King short story Rest Stop
Legendary Pictures has tapped Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) to write and direct an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story Rest Stop, Deadline has revealed. First published in 2003 and collected in 2008’s Just After Sunset, the movie adaptation is being described as “a propulsive cat and mouse thriller [and] follows the twisted journey of […]
Elisabeth Moss is a troubled punk rock star in Her Smell trailer
Ahead of its released this April, a new trailer has arrived online for writer-director Alex Ross Perry’s upcoming music drama Her Smell which stars Elisabeth Moss as a 90’s rock star who is forced to deal with the issues of her troubled past when she finds her career derailed by her behaviour. Joining Moss in […]
Alex Ross Perry to direct R.L. Stine’s Fear Street 2
Back in 2017 it was announced that 20th Century Fox had picked up the rights to Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine’s teen horror series Fear Street, tapping Leigh Janiak (Honeymoon) to direct a trilogy of films. Well, it seems there has been a slight change of plans, with Janiak now set to tackle the first and […]
First trailer for Her Smell starring Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne and Amber Heard
Coinciding with its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, a teaser has arrived online for the upcoming music drama Her Smell. The film reunites writer-director Alex Ross Perry with his Queen of Earth star Elisabeth Moss and features a cast that also includes Dan Stevens, Cara Delevingne, Ashley Benson, Amber Heard, Virginia Madsen, and […]
59th BFI London Film Festival Review – Queen of Earth (2015)
Queen of Earth, 2015. Written and Directed by Alex Ross Perry. Starring Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit, Kentucker Audley, Kate Lyn Sheil and Craig Butta. SYNOPSIS: Two women who grew up together discover they have drifted apart when they retreat to a lake house together. Starting as it means to go on, Alex Ross […]
Movie Review – Queen of Earth (2015)
Queen of Earth, 2015. Directed by Alex Ross Perry. Starring Elizabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Kentucker Audley and Patrick Fugit. SYNOPSIS: Two women who grew up together discover they have drifted apart when they retreat to a lake house together. There is a strong sense of awkward tension permeating the air whenever the characters of Alex […]
Disney developing live-action Winnie the Pooh movie
Disney has has announced that Winnie the Pooh is set to become its latest animated property to get the live-action treatment, with Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) signing on to write the adaptation. According to Deadline, the movie will see a now-adult Christopher Robin revisiting Pooh’s hangout in the Hundred Arce Wood. Disney’s assocatiation […]
Movie Review – Golden Exits (2018)
Golden Exits, 2018. Written and Directed by Alex Ross Perry. Starring Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Chloe Sevigny, Mary-Louise Parker, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Rabe, Craig Butta, Keith Poulson, and Analeigh Tipton. SYNOPSIS: An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad […]
