After the critical acclaim of this year’s “I Saw the TV Glow,” Jane Schoenbrun will continue to tackle the horrors of media and culture, but in an even more personal story.
Speaking to the New Yorker, Schoenbrun revealed that this next film is titled “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” a story about “a queer filmmaker hired to direct a new installment of a long-running slasher franchise. The director fixates on the prospect of casting the ‘final girl’ from the original movie, and the two women descend into a frenzy of psychosexual mania.”
“My next movie is all about sex––essentially a movie about learning to enjoy sex after transition. Pre-transition, it wasn’t that I was asexual––I had plenty of desire––but having good sex in the wrong body was impossible. What was available was full dissociation, which is obviously a theme in the first two films,” Schoenbrun had recently told Filmmaker Magazine.
The film will “both honor and critique” the “gender deviance” connected with the serial killer genre, exploring how films “created and codified an idea of transness as monstrous.” The goal is to shoot this one in early 2025.
“I Saw the TV Glow” has, so far, grossed $4 million at the domestic box office — its budget is said to be around $10M. However, the film was showered with rave reviews ever since its premiere at Sundance in January. I was mixed on it, but am more than willing to give it a rewatch.
Even after just two films, Schoenbrun’s cinematic obsession is quite clear: young people in the digital age. After “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” Schoenbrun yet again tackles media consumption overload, and the moving images that possess young minds in “I Saw the TV Glow.”
Who here’s seen “I Saw the TV Glow”?
Coppola lost more than $100M on "Megalopolis," got hammered for it, and he knows the clock is running out for one more film. If "Glimpses of the Moon" is that film, someone needs to write the check soon.