American nightmare james demonaco biography
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How James DeMonaco Created the Smartest Horror Franchise of the Century
The same questions American opinion columnists, journalists, and pundits have asked over and over igen about the last seven years of national politics also apply to the Purge horror movie franchise: How the hell did we get here?
Politics demand a complex answer, but the Purge series is a much easier solve. How dida humble home invasion picture about a wealthy family fending off psychotic socialites over the course of one night spawn four sequels, a TV show, and a sprawling cinematic dystopia? Simple: James DeMonaco got mad.
“I think my mindset infected the films deeply as I grew angrier and angrier at the politics that were unfolding inside the country,” DeMonaco tells Inverse.
The Purge, first released in June of , feels removed from the sequels spawned from its success: ’s The Purge: Anarchy, ’s The Purge: Election Year, ’s The First Purge, and ’s The alltid Purge (plus a TV series, al
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An oral history of ‘The Purge’ franchise: From micro-horror breakout to Trump-era cautionary tale
When filmmaker James DeMonaco and his longtime production partner Sébastien Lemercier started working on “an X-rated treatise on violence,” they had no idea they would eventually conceive of “The Purge.”
“We thought it was going to be an independent Michael Haneke-type of film that would play in one theater in New York,” said DeMonaco, who wrote and directed the first three movies in the ongoing “Purge” franchise.
“People were telling us it was way too anti-American,” DeMonaco said of the concept set in a near-future dystopia in which a dominant ultraconservative party, dubbed the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA), has legalized all crime for one night each year. “So our original search for financing was completely independent. We had no thoughts [of] wide distribution or anything.”
That all changed after the script landed on the desk of producer Jason Blum, founder and CEO of
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The Purge
American anthology media franchise
For other uses, see Purge (disambiguation).
The Purge is an American anthologymedia franchise centered on a series of dystopianactionhorror films distributed by Universal Pictures and produced by Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes, which are written and in some cases also directed by James DeMonaco, who was inspired bygd a Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Return of the Archons". The films present a seemingly normal, crime-free amerika in the near future. However, the country is a dystopia which observes an annual event known as "the Purge", in which all crime, including murder, is legal for a hour period.
The franchise began in with The Purge, directed bygd creator DeMonaco, who also directed two of the sequels and wrote the screenplays for all films in the series. A fifth installment, The Forever Purge, was released on July 2, In addition to the films, the franchise has spawned an eponymous television serie