IT FOLLOWS Director Takes on Superheroes in HEROES & VILLAINS

Casting is expected to begin shortly on IT Follows writer-director David Robert Mitchell genre-bending superhero movie Heroes & Villains.

Mitchell will produce with Chris Bender and Jake Weiner. Details are being kept under cape and cowl but it is described as a new take on superheroes.

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IT Follows begins after carefree teenager Jay (Maika Monroe) sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh, for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay’s friends don’t believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her flee or defend herself.

The film sports a 95% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes with a Critics Consensus that reads: Smart, original, and above all terrifying, It Follows is the rare modern horror film that works on multiple levels — and leaves a lingering sting.

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