JOHN CARPENTER Working on New Directing Projects
Halloween and The Thing director John Carpenter is a legend. Obviously. But will we ever see him helm another feature film?
Carpenter tells The Daily Beast: “You might! I’m working on a couple of things. But I’m not doing anything for a while until the world comes back and rights itself. It’s insane now. It’s nuts! I’m not going to go out there and get sick.”
He adds: “I mean, directing is just so unbelievably hard. It’s stressful, it’s physically difficult, it’s tough, and you have to be a certain kind of human being to love it—and I’m not certain I am. I love it but not in an ego way. Music is a lot more gratifying, in a way, because there it is. It’s right in front of you, and you don’t have to wait until it’s cut together and deal with an armory of people making movies.”
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Carpenter’s last film The Ward back in 2010.
It told the tale of a young woman committed to a psychiatric unit where the angry spirit of a former patient haunts the girls being treated. They make a desperate escape attempt after the staff ignores their warnings about the spirit.
The film sports a 33% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes. The Critics Consensus reads: Lacking the hallmarks of his best work, The Ward proves to be a disappointingly mundane swan song for director John Carpenter.
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