Having scored a critical and commercial hit with the low budget revenge movie BLUE RUIN, it was only a matter of time before the labours of writer/director Jeremy Saulnier paid off. Announced at Cannes, financing has been secured for his next film, titled GREEN ROOM.
Sounding like a variation on John Carpenter, with possibly a smattering of Johannes Roberts’ F (2010), the story is an enclosed battle for survival as a punk band become trapped at a venue by a pack of rampaging fascist skinheads. Set to begin production in September, the money is coming from the appropriately-shaded Broad Green Pictures, who will co-produce with RUIN’s Filmscience.
Saulnier looks to be continuing in the visceral mode he started with his debut MURDER PARTY in 2007, with what sounds like a powder keg of a scenario just from the initial description.
Source: Variety
