The production start date for Jane Schoenbrun’s next movie, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, has been set, revealing when her next movie will begin getting underway.
When is the Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma production start?
According to new information from Production Weekly, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will begin production in May. Currently, no casting information is available for the project, although with things set to start in just over two months, more information should be coming shortly.
Production Weekly’s notes on the film also dive a bit more into what the film’s plot details will be. In it, they describe the movie as “an exploration of the teen sleepaway camp slasher genre and all of the gender trouble inherent in it. About a queer filmmaker who is hired to direct a new installment of a long-running slasher franchise. The director fixates on the prospect of casting the ‘final girl’ from the original movie, and the two women descend into a frenzy of psychosexual mania.”
Previously, Schoenbrun described the film as “Portrait of a Lady on Fire set in a Friday the 13th sequel.” Not too much is known about the film’s plot aside from that, but in a previous interview with Filmmaker Magazine, she did say that the movie would be “all about sex,” specifically learning about sex after transitioning.
“My next movie is all about sex––essentially a movie about learning to enjoy sex after transition,” said Schoenbrun. “Pre-transition, it wasn’t that I was asexual––I had plenty of desire––but having good sex in the wrong body was impossible. What was available was full dissociation, which is obviously a theme in the first two films.”
In a profile in The New Yorker, the movie is said to both “honor and critique” the serial killer genre, hinting that the movie will be a slasher of some sort. Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow released earlier this year via A24, and was a success both critically and at the box office, where it earned $5.3 million.
(Source: Production Weekly)
