With ‘Longlegs’ drawing huge acclaim and ‘The Monkey’ just opening director Osgood Perkins reveals that he has already shot his third film between making those two titles.
This third film was shot after Longlegs but before The Monkey and is titled ‘Keeper’ and stars Tatiana Maslany as a wife who, following the abrupt exit of her husband, has to contend with a sinister force at their remote cabin getaway. Maslany loved Perkins’ lean-and-mean shooting experience so much that she immediately signed on to play the mother of The Monkey’s twin main characters.
Longlegs director Osgood Perkins revealed, “We did [Keeper] fast and on the fly. We did it with a lot of trust and good faith. It’s an intimate, small, weird movie with, essentially, two characters,” Perkins shares. “So we wrapped that movie on a Friday, and on the following Monday, we were in the offices of The Monkey.”
He went on to explain, ‘I went to Vancouver to make Longlegs, and I hadn’t made a movie in a long time. I then fell in love with the Canadian crew and my Vancouver producer, Chris Ferguson, during the adventure of making Longlegs. We’ve formed this amazing kind of mini-Hollywood up there, and we felt good about what we were doing. So we were ready to get started on The Monkey after freeing it up from the studio, and we’d got the financing. We had everybody and the crew was equally committed and wanted to keep the party going, but then the strikes set into their long haul. There was that moment there where the Writers Guild strike seemed like it was never going to end and the world was going to crack. So I called Chris and was like, “Well, we’ve got to keep working, man. The dream was to just go from one movie to the next, so we’ve got to figure something out.”
The shortest version of the story is that we found a Canadian writer who could do it, who wasn’t a Writers Guild writer [Nick Lepard]. We then found Canadian actors who would wave their SAG status and work as Canadians. So we formed this movie called Keeper out of nothing, and we just kept working. We did it fast and on the fly. We did it with a lot of trust and good faith. It’s an intimate, small, weird movie with, essentially, two characters. So we wrapped that movie on a Friday, and on the following Monday, we were in the offices of The Monkey. That’s just the way it went. We had a rhythm, and we just loved each other. So, if you find that and you’re capable and willing and not exhausted beyond your limit, then why not keep going?
We’ve had a sneak peek of the trailer and is looks as ominously disturbing as Longlegs
Keeper is set for release in Autumn 2025
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related feature : ‘The Monkey’ reviewed HERE
source: The Hollywood Reporter
