A Killer Squirrel Movie is the Timur Bekmambetov Movie We Deserve
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It really is about time we stopped giving Timur any more credit than he deserves. Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted – all passable genre pieces, but nothing in them ever screamed “visionary director” to me (Wanted was actually better as a Mark Millar comic). And to the extent that they did, hooking up with Tim Burton killed the unique spark in favor of generic sub-Burtonism.
So let him produce a movie about squirrels gone bad. Make it the visionary-est killer tree-rodent movie ever. He can handle violence, but he’s never handled making me care about a lead character, so films all about the kills are where he should perfect his vision thing.
Plus this actually does look like a lot of fun – I’d make a nuts joke but he already thought of that. Check out the proof-of-concept teaser after the jump.
h/t Canadian.Scott
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist