{"id":589729,"date":"2026-09-04T08:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589729\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:12:08","slug":"ar-content-vertigo-blumhouse-atomic-monster-set-vincent-must-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589729\/","title":{"rendered":"AR Content, Vertigo, Blumhouse Atomic Monster\u00a0Set ‘Vincent Must Die’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAR Content<\/a>, Vertigo<\/a> and Blumhouse Atomic Monster<\/a> are teaming up to remake \u201cVincent Must Die,\u201d the acclaimed French Belgian thriller directed by St\u00e9phan Castang that premiered in the Cannes Film Festival\u2019s Directors\u2019 Fortnight sidebar in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten and directed by\u00a0David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, the film will be produced by AR Content\u2019s Alexander Rodnyansky alongside Roy Lee (\u201cWeapons\u201d) of Vertigo Entertainment and Michael Clear (\u201cM3GAN\u201d) for Blumhouse Atomic Monster, along with Michael Kupisk of AR Content. Stuart Manashil will executive produce. The film was optioned by AR Content from Goodfellas, who will also serve as executive producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tDescribed by\u00a0Variety\u00a0as \u201ca witty, grimy, timely parable for our paranoid and persecuted era,\u201d Castang\u2019s genre-bending thriller earned widespread recognition and critical acclaim after bowing on the Croisette, receiving nominations for the Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or in Cannes, best first film at the C\u00e9sar Awards and best actor (Karim Leklou) and best first film at the Lumi\u00e8re Awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Mathieu Naert, Dominique Baumard and St\u00e9phan Castang, and starring Karim Leklou, Vimala Pons and Fran\u00e7ois Chattot, the film follows Vincent, an ordinary man who suddenly finds himself under physical attack by anyone who makes eye contact with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe remake will be written and directed by Johnson-McGoldrick, a veteran screenwriter and producer known for \u201cOrphan,\u201d \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites,\u201d \u201cAquaman\u201d and \u201cInsidious: Out of the Further.\u201d \u201cVincent Must Die\u201d marks his directorial debut.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so grateful to my collaborators at AR Content, Vertigo and Atomic Monster for bringing me this opportunity and trusting in my vision,\u201d said Johnson-McGoldrick. \u201cI immediately fell in love with the film, and so having a chance to step into this crazy world they created is a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe original \u2018Vincent Must Die\u2019 is an extraordinary and thrilling piece of cinema, and I am honored to help bring this story to an even wider audience,\u201d said AR Content\u2019s Rodnyansky. \u201cDavid has created some of the most powerful and memorable films in the horror genre, and I have complete faith in his vision for this adaptation. I\u2019m excited to be partnering with David, Roy and Michael to bring this film to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be happier to be in business with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick again on this film,\u201d added Atomic Monster president Clear. \u201cDavid brings a keen sense of story and a knack for the cinematic experience to everything he does. We\u2019re thankful to our partners at AR Content and Vertigo and looking forward to bringing \u2018Vincent Must Die\u2019 to life for a whole new audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJohnson-McGoldrick is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Howard Abramson at Behr Abramson Levy Johnson.<\/p>\n

\n\tFounded by the two-time Academy Award-nominated producer Rodnyansky (\u201cLeviathan,\u201d \u201cLoveless\u201d), AR Content is at this year\u2019s Venice Film Festival with Korn\u00e9l Mundrucz\u00f3\u2019s \u201cPlace to Be,\u201d starring Ellen Burstyn, Taika Waititi and Pamela Anderson, and \u201cThe Road to Jericho,\u201d\u00a0a documentary by Amos Gitai,\u00a0which will both world premiere out of competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLater this month, the company will release the event limited series \u201cHigh Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam,\u201d starring Joel Kinnaman and inspired by John Nixon\u2019s nonfiction book \u201cDebriefing the President,\u201d on TNT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AR Content, Vertigo and Blumhouse Atomic Monster are teaming up to remake \u201cVincent Must Die,\u201d the acclaimed French…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[290330,147234,156,409,111,139,69,60753],"class_list":["post-589729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ar-content","tag-blumhouse-atomic-monster","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-vertigo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}