Showtime has ordered the anthology series “Cinema Toast” from creator Jeff Baena and executive producers the Duplass brothers and it’s arriving soon – as in next week.
The series is a “post-modernist reinvention of older movies” that will turn pre-existing imagery from the public domain on its head to tell brand new unique stories.
Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Fred Armisen, John Early, Christina Ricci, Megan Mullally, Chloe Fineman and Chris Meloni will lend their voices to the ten-episode run while Baena, Jay Duplass, Mel Eslyn, Alex Ross Perry, Marta Cunningham, Aubrey Plaza, Numa Perrier, Jordan Firstman, Kris Rey and David Lowery will direct.
Cunningham’s “Attack of the Karens” episode sees “Night of the Living Dead” contextualized within this last year in America. Eslyn’s “After the End” sees monster classic “Beast From Haunted Cave” turned into a mumblecore comedy, Plaza’s “Quiet Illness” uses footage of Loretta Young to create a psychological thriller about an emotionally tortured modern woman.
Perry’s “Report on the Canine Auto-Mechanical Soviet Threat” sounds the most intriguing, a surreal journey made out of Soviet film rarities about a young boy immersed in a new reality inhabited by talking cars and telepathic dogs.
The series will premiere all at once on Showtime’s on-demand streaming and partner platforms on April 20th.
Source: Showtime
