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Horror Pride Month: Actress Zoey Luna
Zoey Luna is an actress with a plan, and so far it’s working out for her. A lifelong horror fan who is starring in the upcoming reboot of The Craft, she told all her friends that she was going to be a movie star at age 18 and she is well on her way.
The bubbly, charismatic young actress spoke with me for iHorror’s Horror Pride Month celebration, and she could not be more excited to be stepping into something as iconic as The Craft.
“Just to be in The Craft as my first movie is insane!” she gushed. “It’s been a thrill. It’s been amazing. I’m going to focus on the positive. This has been a huge positive in my life. The acting was great. Everyone was great at what they do and the director, Zoe [Lister-Jones], was just so amazing. Everyone made me feel at home. It was a really beautiful experience.”
This is only Luna’s third acting gig, she previously worked with Rosario Dawson on a short film titled Boundless and she made an appearance on Pose under the direction of Janet Mock.
Some might say this isn’t much, but for a teenage trans actress of color, those credits are astonishing. Of course everyone knows Laverne Cox and Alexandra Billings, and some horror fans might be able to name Angelica Ross who appeared in American Horror Story: 1984 as well as Pose, but on the whole trans actresses and especially non-white trans actresses have a harder time finding work.
Part of this has to do with the fact that so few trans characters are written and when they are, they’re given to cis-actors. Part of it is that trans actors and actresses are not taken seriously when they audition for non-trans roles. And some filmmakers are just plain bigots.
Zoey Luna has always known she was a girl even after her brother took it upon himself to her that she was actually a boy because she had a penis when they were small children. It didn’t shake her resolve however, as she grew up.
“That’s when I realized there was a problem, not with me, but with the world,” she explained.”I felt one way and they all felt another way just because of what was in my pants, and I thought, none of you guys are going to have sex with me so why the f*ck do you care?”
Coming out and being open about her identity was a challenge, especially in her home.
“You know, there was a problem because we’re Latinos,” she pointed out. “My dad was the man of the house. It was a really big difficult moment for my mom because of the reputation for my dad. So she kept it a pretty big secret between me and her for a while until he passed away. Once he died, I had a new life. My mom was always pretty supportive. The TV liked to make it look like she’s really an angel and she’s very nice-ish, but we’ve had a lot of problems.”
Problems or no, Luna has found her own path and continues to work hard at her chosen profession saying she’d love to do more horror films in the future. In fact, she wants nothing less than to be one of those women in the films that she grew up watching running away from a masked killer.
The Craft is currently in post-production and awaiting an official release date. Stay tuned for more details on that project as they become available.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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