Shin’ichirô Ueda’s zombie movie One Cut of the Dead was a small-budget hit in Japan in 2017, earning accolades all across the country. But it is a very-Japanese movie, and because of that it simply had to be remade. Enter Michel Hazanavicius with Final Cut, which offers a French take on the horror about a zombie outbreak on the set of a zombie movie production.
The film stars Romain Duris, Bérénice Bejo, Matilda Lutz, and Finnegan Oldfield, with Hazanavicius writing and directing. Hazanavicius is best known for directing The Artist, which won him Best Director and Best Picture at the 2011 Oscars. Things haven’t gone as smoothly since, but Final Cut could be the start of a comeback.
Final Cut hits theaters on July 14th via Kino Lorber.
Oscar® winner Michel Hazanavicius’ remake of Shin’ichirô Ueda’s cult hit One Cut of the Dead follows a director (Romain Duris, L’Auberge Espagnole) charged with making a live, single-take, low-budget zombie flick in which the cast and crew, one by one, actually turn into zombies. Featuring hysterically unhinged performances from Oscar® nominee Bérénice Bejo (The Artist), Matilda Lutz (Revenge), and Finnegan Oldfield (Corsage), Final Cut is a sly love letter to the art of filmmaking and a blood-soaked, hilarious genre farce with a meta-to-the-max premise.