Out doing promotions for the DVD release of his hardcore thriller "Running Scared", director Wayne Kramer ("The Cooler") spoke in detail to Now Playing Magazine about his next project "Evil Seek":
What are you working on now?
Kramer: I'm going to start a movie in September that I wrote and I'll be directing for the Weinstein Co. called Evil Seek. And it's basically every 1000 years in hell, they elect a new Satan, so the reigning Satan has to come down to Earth, take over the body of a mortal and find his successor, the most evil person alive. And he wakes up in the body of an FBI profiler working a terrible serial killing case in LA. And it's kind of like Seven meets Heaven Can Wait. And sort of like Satan is the one moral guy in this film. And he has inherited a disgruntled ex-wife, a 15-year-old daughter who's becoming all promiscuous, a lesbian partner. And he's got no powers, just a nose for evil. And it turns out that when he starts investigating these bizarre killings, it looks like the killer's trying to summon the devil, so it's kind of an interesting thing that's about to happen.
What genre does it fall into?
Kramer: It's basically a supernatural thriller. There is humor in it and I think it's great to write a film about finding the ultimate evil, because you can comment on everything that's happening politically today, as well. But it's also very disturbing and freakish. It's definitely one that's gonna challenge the MPAA, I'll tell you that. Thomas Jane is starring... There's definitely a lot of dark humor in the script, even though at times it'll be absolutely terrifying and freakish. And I don't know - there's definitely enough fairy tale aspects to it, but there's a lot of twists and turns. I think most of the films that I've done feature certain sort of turnarounds in the storyline and I do think fans of the horror genre are going to have a fun time with this one.
And then what are you doing beyond Evil Seek?
Kramer: I have a couple of projects that I've written set-up around town. One of them is The Sleeping Detective which is at New Line, about a narcoleptic private eye. It's kind of a Chinatown - a guy like Jake Gittes who is falling asleep all the time, at the worst possible times. Probably I'm working also on an immigration drama that's gonna be a very different film, which is sort of like a passion project for me. And I've been researching it for a bunch of years, but I'm just trying to find the time to finish the script.
