The director of films including I Killed My Mother, Tom at the Farm, and Matthias & Maxime, Xavier Dolan has revealed that he’s currently hard at work writing a period horror movie.
Deadline reports this morning that the untitled project is set in 1880s France, and Dolan plans to shoot the movie in late 2025. The scoop came courtesy of the Sans Filtre Podcast.
Xavier Dolan told the podcast in a recent chat, “It’s something I wrote before the pandemic, and I’m looking at again… It’s a genre film, a horror film, set in 1880s in France.”
“It feels removed from my life and what I know but on re-reading it, I understood that it is a film about the fear of failure, the fear of being rejected, of being misunderstood, the difficulty of creating,” Dolan continues, offering a tease of what we can expect from the film.
He adds, “Unconsciously, I’ve returned to the same themes, in a period that I don’t know, but which appeals to me and in a style which appeals to me, but with a completely different proposition. I feel that I can surpass myself, learn and grow with themes that are dear to me but in the horror genre.”
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