Sundance prize-winning filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu has unveiled new details about her forthcoming feature for Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw and Universal that we told you about first in January. While …
Sundance prize-winning filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu has unveiled new details about her forthcoming feature for Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw and Universal thatWhile details on the horror film had previously been scarce, we now know that it will in some form adapt Jusu’s own short film, which world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019.
Jusu’s comments came during a panel at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, as part of Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season showcase.
Jusu’s feature adaptation is being made under Monkeypaw’s overall deal at Universal. The filmmaker will adapt the screenplay with Fredrica Bailey.film — based on George A. Romero’s zombie classic —that she’s been tapped to helm for Village Roadshow Pictures, Chris Romero and the late George A. Romero’s Sanibel Films, Origin Story, Vertigo and Westbrook Studios, as we were first to report.
The creative’s Saturday appearance at Deadline’s Contenders came in support of her feature directorial debut, Nanny, which this year became the first horror film to win Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize. The upcoming film penned by Jusu follows the Senegalese immigrant nanny Aisha , watching as she attempts to piece together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family.
The film acquired earlier this year by Amazon Studios and Blumhouse will open in limited release on November 23, debuting on Prime Video on December 16.
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