I first met Saturday Night Live star Kyle Mooney when he was a senior at USC, through a mutual friend I was interning with at Blumhouse. At the time, Kyle was part of the comedy troupe Good Neighbor along with Beck Bennett and Nick Rutherford, and the group was starting to get some attention for their short films. SNL was still a dream, albeit one within reach. In fact, back in July 2013, I arrogantly suggested that Lorne Michaels cast the Good Neighbor trio on SNL, and just one month later, Mooney and Bennett were hired to join the show. …
And David Arquette's not the only one that feels that way, either.
Would you get in an Uber with Joe Keery? Yeah, of course you would, you rascal. But here's the thing! Joe Keery, or that driver with the horrific taste in music, or that driver who always misses your exit; they could all be murderers! You just never know who's gonna do some murdering. And that is pretty much the setup for the new horror satire Spree, which stars the Stranger Things scene-stealer as Kurt, a rideshare driver desperate for social media fame and willing to do anything to get folks to smash that subscribe button. And by …
If Patrick Bateman was a social media influencer, he'd look a lot like Kurt Kunkle, the "hero" of Eugene Kotlyarenko's wacko thriller Spree, which comes off like an American Psycho update for the digital age. Stranger Things star Joe Keery blows up his YA-friendly image as @KurtsWorld96, a driver for the rideshare company Spree, who has placed cameras all over his car to mine content from his assortment of passengers. Unfortunately, no one seems to care. His streams never get more than single-digit views. He's "friends" with a major influencer, but he lacks a hook …
Natasha Romanoff is on the hunt for a killer. The only problem? It's Black Widow she's chasing... as in someone wearing Natasha's own body!