Comedy Means Business podcast<\/a>, Nanjiani revealed that he will make his directorial debut on the genre film Howl.<\/p>\n\u201c[Directing] was like this vague thing I wanted to do, but it wasn\u2019t until I read this script that came to me to act in that I was like, \u2018Okay, I don\u2019t know if I know how to direct, but I think I know how to direct this movie. That\u2019s kind of how it happened. I just read the right the thing,\u201d Nanjiani explains.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first thing I want to do is a genre thing. Emily [V. Gordon, wife] and I are huge genre fans. We watch every sci-fi movie. We watch every horror movie,\u201d Nanjiani continues.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t like I was specifically looking to direct a horror movie or anything; it was just this movie. I get this movie. It\u2019s got a very specific tone, and I was like, \u2018I see this tone in my head. I know exactly how this should be.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Nanjiani acknowledges that he\u2019s following in the footsteps of other comedians-turned-horror filmmakers.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously there\u2019s a been a lot of comedians pivoting into making horror movies recently, and it\u2019s been successful,\u201d he says. \u201cObviously Jordan Peele, Josh Ruben, Zach Cregger, all these people come from comedy and have made great horror. So I think that their track record has helped me a little bit in making this pivot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Plot details remain under wraps, but\u00a0Howl is aiming to enter production next year.<\/p>\n
Winter Coat Films, the production company Nanjiani launched last year with Gordon and producer Dani Melia (The Farewell), is expected to produce.<\/p>\n
Nanjiani can next be seen in \u201cFallout\u201d Season 2<\/a>, premiering tomorrow on Prime Video.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comic, actor, writer, and producer Kumail Nanjiani (Eternals, The Big Sick) will soon add directing to his resume…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,151436,50775,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-347696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-howl","12":"tag-kumail-nanjiani","13":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}