The subsequent movie by trendy grasp of horror Osgood Perkins is ready to be launched in November 2025, the identical 12 months he launched the well-received Stephen King adaptation, The Monkey. Keeper, which can reunite the director with Tatiana Maslany, is a challenge that has remained virtually totally underneath wraps. Neon’s advertising group has made positive to maintain everybody at nighttime with an eerie trailer that does not present a lot, and a marketing campaign that has revealed zero particulars in regards to the plot. Nonetheless, Maslany and Perkins have revealed what the movie is about, and, properly, the intrigue has solely grown.
Perkins and Maslany sat down to speak to Comedian E-book throughout the latest version of the San Diego Comedian-Con. Whereas the dialog didn’t embody large reveals about Keeper, it was sufficient to get a pair extra clues that might assist followers resolve the thriller. That is what Perkins mentioned when describing the movie’s predominant theme:
“It is the worst a part of being male. It is a have a look at disgusting maleness. If you wish to name it the patriarchy, you need to name it misogyny, you need to name it poisonous masculinity, no matter you need to name it. It is a depiction of our worst selves as males. That is my reply to you. Generally, now we have to look and be like, ‘Ew, gross.’ And I feel that Keeper is a have a look at males, ‘Gross.'”
Maslany additionally contributed to the dialogue, saying: “I’d say, in some methods, it is also a have a look at ladies, gross, if we’ll get tremendous binary about it. However I do assume it’s the instincts that you just ignore, or the methods you recognize one thing however have gaslit your self. Which is clearly, I suppose, patriarchy. That is patriarchy. By no means thoughts, it is all about males. Males suck.”
‘Keeper’ Was Not a Conventional Manufacturing
Keeper would be the second time in his profession that Perkins doesn’t direct his personal screenplay (Gretel & Hansel was his first challenge written by another person). However this wasn’t the one unconventional factor of the manufacturing. Keeper was produced across the similar time as The Monkey in 2024, and although he looks like the sort of director who retains all the pieces underneath management, he additionally takes dangers. Perkins revealed that the script nonetheless wasn’t completed when the movie entered manufacturing, and author Nick Lepard needed to preserve writing (and doubtless tweaking) the script as they went alongside. The director continued:
“It was form of written in actual time by our buddy Nick Lepard as we had been doing the film. So we had been like, we’d like a film in a home. Yeah, we’d like a film in a home with two individuals. Go. And he would form of do it. After which he would report in. And we might say, ‘Nice.’ After which he would preserve doing extra. And so it was form of the vitality of the entire challenge was sort of, ‘What if we made it up as we went along-ish and sort of had all of the departments doing their growth on the similar time?’
“So I used to be assembly with Tatiana on the similar time that Nick was writing the script similtaneously our producers had been knocking on doorways looking for areas. And we had no cash and no time. And we simply form of… it was like an expressionistic portray.”
Keeper
- Launch Date
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November 14, 2025
- Director
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Osgood Perkins
- Writers
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Nick Lepard
- Producers
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Chris Ferguson, Jesse Savath
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Rossif Sutherland
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