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

Date:

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.

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Eric Lavallée https://www.ericlavallee.com

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury 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 was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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