DIRECTORS EXCLUSIVE
On The Pill
Netflix movie Project Power takes a gritty approach to the superhero genre
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SCI-FACT! Joost and Schulman co-directed the third and fourth instalments of the
Paranormal Activity
franchise.
NO SUPERHEROES, ONLY SUPERPOWERS. That’s the mantra directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman adopted for their new Netflix feature Project Power. The crime thriller/action film’s premise involves a drug that grants its user extraordinary abilities - but only for five minutes. From that premise, Project Power could have spiralled into a metahuman free-for-all. Well, this isn’t that movie.
“Can I do my joke about being fired now?”
“That’s part of what attracted us to the project,” Joost tells Red Alert. “It doesn’t go in the direction I think you might assume it would based on the concept. We hadn’t really seen superpowers that had consequences and side effects the way they did in this script. The man who catches on fire gets horribly burned and disfigured by his power. The guy who grows to be 15-feet tall has stretch marks. It could even kill you if you’re not careful about it.