When you hear the name Stephen King, many other names are associated as if echoed. There was a Stanley Cubrick who reinvented a page-turner to a magnificent flick, ‘The Shining’. There was also a Frank Darabont (Academy Award-winning director of ‘The Shawshank Redemption’), a consistent King collaborator who five years ago made a stunning depiction of as same weight gut-wrenching novel, ‘The Mist’. The latter King collaboration had a twisted end that has blown people’s minds.
There was finally a Mick Garris, who may not seem to level with the previously mentioned directors, who himself is a loyal King collaborator too. Garris have done ‘Sleepwalkers’, Stephen King’s first screenplay. After that, the relationship went strong, albeit projects were never over passable movies. Oh and recently, he turned another King paperback into a TV series...it consists two episodes, my friend. Just two.
All “good” things come to an end, though. Realized by Mick Garris, probably, the relationship between a Mick and a Stephen is as firm as concrete, but the career doesn’t profit enough. He had to head towards a different direction.
As if on cue, Invasion comes knocking on his door. Invasion is a science-fiction film from Little Studio Films which will center on a female reporter who tries to break in a testosterone dominant 1960’s news casting. With her ambitious attempt, she uncovers a truth about a government’s secret shocking to an intolerable degree. And it involves otherworldly forms. Script is by A.J. Ferrara.“It’s a bit of different direction for me,” Mick Garris had to confess, “but it’s great because I get to make a period movie but with a modern sensibility.”
He describes Invasion as a cross-breed of ‘The Outer Limits’ and ‘Mad Men’ and since we’re on the 60’s why don’t we add ‘Men in Black’ and ‘Anchorman’ too? Maybe a pinch of ‘Hairspray’ will also do, just make sure to subtract all the extravagant singing and all the big hair dresses.
Ferne Castell is negotiated to be the production’s casting director as the movie’s to-do-list is topped with finding the perfect lead.
The film, Invasion, which title may be described, with humor stirred, “cleverly thought of”, Garris said, is well-researched despite of fantasy and imagination involved in the narrative.
Apparently, after this hit-or-miss production, Garris will resume in embracing the horror genre once more as he create another anthology movie. Mick Garris had been exceptional, at least with these kinds of film; prominent examples are: ‘Nightmares in Red, White and Blue’ and ‘Tales from the Script’.
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