‘Outside The Box’ Family Adventure Film In The Works From ‘Freaks’ Directors
By Ben Pearson/Sept. 11, 2019 2:30 pm EST
Details about the actual plot are still hard to come by, but when we caught up with Kim Possible filmmakers Stein and Lipovsky for a chat about their new movie Freaks, which is set in a world where some humans have superpowers but there are no traditional superheroes or supervillains, the writer/director pair told us they were excited about the possibility to return to that world in future projects:
“We made this film so we could show the world the voice that we have, that we wanted to show what we could do. It’s led to all sorts of exciting things. One of the coolest is getting a lot of our idols, people that we never thought we’d ever get to meet, getting to see the film and love the film and then want to work with us, which has been really incredible. Above that, we’ve really wanted to do more with the world. In the film, you’ve seen one little slice of this world because we told a small story, but we feel like there’s a much bigger world to explore. Which we would love to do…[this movie has] led to maybe being able to make more in the world of Freaks. That would be awesome, if possible.”
Could Outside the Box be secretly set in that same world, or is this a whole new universe for these filmmakers? The notion of this new movie drawing comparisons to early Spielberg works is interesting too, because Freaks has garnered some of those same comparisons. In our interview (which will be published in full soon), the directors themselves talked about genre-hopping in the same movie and name-checked Spielberg specifically:
You can check out the trailer for Freaks here, and see it in theaters when it debuts on September 13, 2019.
