GRAMMY WINNER FLYING LOTUS SETS SCI-FI HORROR PIC ‘ASH’

Musician and filmmaker Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison) has his sophomore feature set as a sci-fi horror film Ash , on the heels of his body horror anthology Kuso, which made its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

The new film, for which the multi-hyphenate will also compose an original score, sees a woman wake up on a distant planet and find the crew of her space station viciously killed, her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.

Jonni Remmler penned the original screenplay. XYZ Films and GFC Films will produce, with Echo Lake on board as exec producer. Ash follows XYZ’s collaboration with GFC on Toa Fraser’s New Zealand Oscar entry The Dead Lands, which was presented to the U.S. market by James Cameron, and Toa’s subsequent action-thriller 6 Days starring Jamie Bell, Mark Strong and Abbie Cornish, which debuted globally on Netflix in 2017.

“I’ve a strong desire to innovate in the sci-fi space,” Flying Lotus said with regard to his latest film, “and I really want to show the world something they’ve never seen before.”

Matthew Metcalfe, who heads up GFC, and XYZ Partner Nate Bolotin added in a joint statement: “ASH has been a project of passion for both XYZ and GFC for several years now and with each iteration of development it has only become stronger and more entertaining. With Steven at the helm of Jonni’s screenplay, we see a visionary film about to come to life and we couldn’t be more excited to take the film into production in 2022.”

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