Fede Alvarez Would Love to Direct a Classic Slasher Movie
With films including Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe and Alien: Romulus under his belt, Fede Alvarez has established himself as a must-watch director in the horror space, with the Uruguayan filmmaker currently working on a planned sequel to Alien: Romulus. But what’s next for Alvarez beyond the Alien franchise? Well, he’d love to take a stab […]
With films including Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe and Alien: Romulus under his belt, Fede Alvarez has established himself as a must-watch director in the horror space, with the Uruguayan filmmaker currently working on a planned sequel to Alien: Romulus. But what’s next for Alvarez beyond the Alien franchise? Well, he’d love to take a stab at a slasher film.
“On the horror side I would love to do a good old slasher,” Alvarez told Collider on the red carpet at the Saturn Awards over the weekend. “I haven’t done that really.”
He added, “A kind of classic slasher.”
While Alvarez did produce the 2022 version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he’s never fully dipped his toes into the slasher genre as a director. Both the Evil Dead and Alien franchises have slasher elements to them, with monsters tearing their way through victims, but it sounds like Alvarez is talking about something more akin to Halloween, Friday the 13th and the like.
On that note, is Alvarez interested in putting his own spin on a classic slasher franchise or would he rather make an original movie within the space carved out by the slasher greats?
Alvarez tells Collider in the same chat, “I wouldn’t go for an IP necessarily, but a part of me that’s sort of like very old school ’80s. That I would love to do.”
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