Actor Alison Brie has set her feature directorial debut, a horror film about women, by women. More details below.
Alison Brie is set to become the latest actor moving behind the camera for a movie. Deadline reports the news, originally from an interview in Marie Claire. The Community and Promising Young Woman actor will be making her directorial debut with a horror film she has co-written with Alice Stanley Jr.
“While we were writing it, I felt like I was writing it to direct it,” Brie said. “I could see every shot in my head.” The actor also described the film as “female-forward” with “very fun energy”.
The still-untitled horror film won’t be the first time Brie has stepped behind the camera. She previously directed an episode of GLOW, a Netflix series focusing on female wrestlers in which she also starred.
“I think women carry a lot of self-doubt and we have a desire to make everything perfect before we attempt something, or we learn everything we can learn. You want to really check the boxes and go, am I prepared for this? And at a certain point you have to just take the leap and believe in yourself,” Brie described of the challenge.
Horror isn’t a new genre for Brie either. She’s currently starring in Together, Michael Shanks’ body horror film with her real-life husband Dave Franco. The pair play a married couple who find themselves drawn to each other a little too much. Together is currently in US cinemas now and UK audiences can be disturbed by it from 15th August.
More on Brie’s mysterious horror film as we hear it.
