The theatrical launch of Nikyatu Jusu’s function directorial debut, “Nanny,” is simply days away, and new particulars are rising about her follow-up to the Sundance winner. The upcoming Monkeypaw and Universal title will see her increasing her 2019 Sundance brief “Suicide by Sunlight,” per Deadline. The function follows “day-walking Black vampires who are protected from the sun by their melanin,” Jusu defined.
No phrase on how intently the brand new venture, which Jusu is penning with Fredrica Bailey (“See You Yesterday”), will resemble the unique brief. Set within the close to future in NYC, the brief facilities on a lady who “finds it difficult to suppress her bloodlust when a new woman is introduced to her estranged twin daughters,” per the supply.
Jusu can be engaged on a brand new “Night of the Living Dead” movie.
“Nanny” premiered at Sundance this yr and took residence the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic. It made historical past as the primary horror pic to land the respect. Set to hit theaters November 23 and Prime Video December 16, the supernatural story follows an undocumented Senegalese immigrant working as a nanny for an prosperous household in New York City.