Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Lee’s False Positive

Published on November 17, 2020

Another A24 horror title project waiting to burst into the public space director John Lee and Ilana Glazer combined forces for False Positive – a project said to be along the lines of Rosemary’s Baby. Working in television with the only exception being Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, Lee start shooting in March of 2019 in New Orleans with a formable line-up and Glazer in the driver’s seat. Justin Theroux, Pierce Brosnan, Zainab Jah, Gretchen Mol, Sophia Bush and Josh Hamilton are also onboard.

Gist: This is a psychological horror that is said to be a contemporary take on Rosemary’s Baby.

Production Co./Producers: Ilana Glazer, John Lee, Jonathan Wang, Allison Rose Carter.

Prediction: MIDNIGHT.

U.S. Distributor: A24.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).