The producer Jason Blum says more about the future series American Nightmare

Cinema 12 October, 2017

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Who would have believed at the time of the release of the first American Nightmare that the movie was going to give birth to a big saga ? Not us in any case. And apparently, we haven’t seen anything yet.

Not because,well, American Nightmare, it was really nice for a small series in B mowed, but it was far from being a masterpiece. But whatever, the movie was such a success that the producer Jason Blum, is a shrewd entrepreneur, has said that there was way to make the mesh, and therefore launched a follow-up. As it was just as well, no more procrastinating, and as well go all out. Because of that, we are left today with an entire saga that goes nicely with the play expanded universe.

Because, yes, if the fourth film of the franchise is in the pipeline, American Nightmare 4 : The Island, Jason Blum unveiled a few months ago that a tv series would also be the start of construction, although it is a bit different from the movies. Indeed, if the broadcast show is not scheduled until 2018 on the channel SyFy, we know already that the series will focus mostly on the other days of the year and not the Purge itself, in order to understand what can push normal people to kill each other for an entire night per year.

And Blum is not private for us to bring new elements to the micro of Den of Geek in an intervention that sounds like a real note of intent of the future show :

“We are currently in full working exploration of what it is to live the other days in a society where you have the right to kill someone some day per year. It makes you definitely think about your behaviour, throwing a finger at someone when you are driving, or things like that. So we are thinking about all these things that could happen in a society where killing someone is legal for 12 hours per year.

There are many things which we do not necessarily think. For example, you could commit a murder and make it so that it is believed that it is produced in full Bleed and, therefore, not be pursued. There are so many things to do in such a context and this is what we are trying to find at this time.”

You see, just this small intervention, Blum manages to intrigue us. And if indeed, the series focuses apparently on the other 364 days, it would be a good way, narrativement, raise gradually the voltage, to present people who have problems between them, trying to solve them or not, and always with the prospect that, in the worst case, just wait for the Purge to find the solution blows of the horns. Well-led, well-written, with real characters, it may not do so in fact.