Indonesian Timo Tjahjanto (“Headshot“) has been on a creative tear for some time now, only slowed down because of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Between 2018 and now, he’s released four features and one short; “May the Devil Take You” (2018), the critically acclaimed Netflix actioner “The Night Comes for Us” (2018), “Hit and Run” (2019), “Portals “(2019) and “May The Devil Take You Too” (2020). COVID may have slowed down his productivity, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have lots more in the works.
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Posting on Instagram (and shared on Twitter), Tjahjanto has announced a new untitled genre project, co-written by horror filmmaker Scott Derrickson (“Deliver Us from Evil“) and Derrickson’s longtime writing partner C. Robert Cargill (“Doctor Strange”). While no details are released, the title (which is blocked) reads like “The Horror” and presumably is another horror-ish film, which wouldn’t be a surprise given his writing collaborators.
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Tjahjanto is also attached to direct the English remake of the South Korean zombie flick “Train To Busan” for New Line Cinema and James Wan‘s Atomic Monster.
“After nearly seven years of trying to get this passion project running. It had finally gained some amazingly “strange” traction. Humbled and honored to be working with two of these very talented filmmakers and writers. This one will happen after a train ride, and when it does [multiple skull emojis],” the filmmaker said in a post on Instagram.
The post also included a brief censored synopsis that teases a dystopian element about our civilization’s collapse, and we have to assume the obscured year suggests a futuristic setting.
“The year is 20**, society is screwed. Crime and violence have risen steadily in all remaining regions of planet Earth. Most of Asia has been unified.”
OK, maybe that’s not quite a traditional horror, but the horror of another kind, like global collapse (Tjahjanto always vacillates between action and horror anyhow). Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill aren’t strangers to the sci-fi genre as they were once attached to develop a feature film adaptation of the dystopian futuristic video game “Deus Ex” back in 2012.