The Purge 4 Gets Subtitle and Takes the Series to Its Origins
In an interview with Vulture, franchise creator James DeMonaco reveals that the fourth movie in The Purge franchise will be set on Staten Island, telling the story of the first Purge night. It will also be titled The Purge: The Island.
DeMonaco explains, “I was wondering how you get people to stay for the first Purge, and what they do is they start monetizing it. People from Staten Island can easily go to Brooklyn for the evening, so what they do is start promising very decent sums of money for the very poor people in the neighborhood. It becomes a monetization of murder and violence, incentivizing killing and keeping people around for them to be victims. So you see the inception of how grotesque the idea of the Purge is and the manipulation upon the society.”
He also reveals what we should expect from the film, saying, “What’s fun too is there’s an anti-hero. More than the previous films, there’s a singular hero in this movie. This is one man’s journey, William, an anti-hero [who] was inspired by [Clint] Eastwood in Unforgiven, so it’s this very cool, modern kind of badass who redeems himself through the story.”
Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum returns to produce alongside Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form and DeMonaco’s longtime production partner Sébastien K. Lemercier.
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