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Channing Tatum, Oscar Isaac, and Zazie Beetz are teaming up for “Kockroach,” a film that Deadline describes as a story about a stranger who takes on big power players in New York City’s underworld. Sounds like a thousand movies you’ve seen before, right? Well, it’s based on a book by Tyler Knox, and synopsis of the novel details a much more intriguing, Kafka-esque concept. Read on:
It is the mid-1950s, and in a fleabag hotel off Times Square, Kockroach, perfectly content with life as an insect, awakens to discover that somehow he’s become, of all things, a human. This tragic turn of events would be enough to fling a more highly evolved creature into despair, but cockroaches know no despair. Firmly entrenched in the present tense, they are awesome coping machines, and so Kockroach copes. Step by step, he learns the ways of humans—how to walk, how to talk, how to wear a jaunty brown fedora.
In Times Square he discovers a blistering sea of lights, a great smoking god, walls of glass laden with food, and the opportunity to rise in the human world. Two companions guide him on his way: Mite, an undersized gangster suffering an acute case of existential angst, and Celia Singer, a reserved woman with a disfigured body who finds in Kockroach a key to unlocking her hidden passions.
As Kockroach, led by his primitive desires and insectile amorality, navigates through the bizarre human realms of crime, business, politics, and sex, he meets with both great triumph and great disaster. Will he find success or be squashed flat from above? Will he change humanity, or will humanity change him?
Well, that sounds much more interesting. Matt Ross (“Captain Fantastic“) will be directing, and you might better know him as Gavin Belson on “Silicon Valley,” which I didn’t realize until this very moment, and it’s kind of blowing my mind. Ross also did revisions on the script by Jonathan Ames (“You Were Never Really Here“). Filming kicks off in Australia in January and this is one to definitely keep an eye on.
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