Nikyatu Jusu Adapting ‘Suicide By Daylight’ For Monkeypaw, Common – Deadline

Sundance prize-winning filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu has unveiled new particulars about her forthcoming function for Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw and Common that we advised you about first in January.

Whereas info on the horror movie had been scarce, we now know that it’s going to in some kind adapt Jusu’s brief movie Suicide by Daylight, which world premiered on the Sundance Movie Competition in 2019. “My undertaking with Monkeypaw is an growth of a brief movie I made referred to as Suicide by Daylight,” the multi-hyphenate stated immediately at Deadline’s Contenders Movie: Los Angeles awards-season occasion, “about day-walking Black vampires who’re shielded from the solar by their melanin.”

It’s unclear how intently Jusu’s new function will hew to the story of her acclaimed brief. However the authentic piece, set in a near-future New York Metropolis, extra particularly tells the story of Valentina (Natalie Paul), who finds it tough to suppress her bloodlust when a brand new girl is launched to her estranged twin daughters. 

The function adaptation is being made below Monkeypaw’s total deal at Common. Jusu filmmaker will adapt the screenplay with Fredrica Bailey.

Jusu additionally immediately mentioned the brand new Night time of the Residing Useless movie that she’s been tapped to helm for Village Roadshow Footage, Chris Romero and the late George A. Romero’s Sanibel Movies, Origin Story, Vertigo and Westbrook Studios, as we had been first to report. “The unique made social commentary about racism and classism and all of the -isms, and one of the best zombie movies make commentary on humanity,” famous the director. “I’ve the blessing from…George Romero’s property, and in order that feels actually good as a result of it feels natural.” Jusu will helm that title from a script by The Strolling Useless‘s LaToya Morgan.

Jusu’s look at Contenders got here in assist of her function directorial debut, Nanny, which this yr turned the primary horror movie to win Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize. (Jusu on the identical time turned simply the second Black feminine filmmaker to assert the award.) The upcoming movie penned by Jusu follows the Senegalese immigrant nanny Aisha (Diop), watching as she makes an attempt to piece collectively a brand new life in New York Metropolis whereas caring for the kid of an Higher East Facet household. It’s throughout this time that Aisha is pressured to confront a hid reality that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream.

The movie acquired earlier this yr by Amazon Studios and Blumhouse, will open in restricted launch November 23 and debut on Prime Video on December 16.