EXCLUSIVE: Director Simon Rumley updates us on Stranger and Skin

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

A few months ago, we got word that British director Simon Rumley (RED WHITE AND BLUE, LITTLE DEATHS) was set to work on two new thrillers – STRANGER and THE CHERISHED ONE. Details were very thin on both, but now, with LITTLE DEATHS on the verge of being released (it hits on DECEMBER 13th), I just had a little light shed on Mr. Rumley’s future projects via the man himself.

Rumley describes STRANGER as a “Chinese chase movie, a cross between DUEL and LOST IN TRANSLATION.” The thriller, which Rumley expects to be his next feature, centers on “two American venture capitalists who witness a murder in a factory in China. And the murderers see them.”

STRANGER is financed and is currently casting; the production is waiting on one actor in particular, although Rumley wouldn’t give up the goods on who exactly it is.

SKIN sounds a little more in line with Rumley’s previous disturbing content. As the director tells it, “it’s about a woman who has a pretty low self-esteem, and she’s in a car crash. She falls in love with the plastic surgeon who repairs her face, and she kind of persuades him to do more and more surgery, and at some point it goes wrong. Then it’s about how it ruins her life and she takes revenge on him and his loved ones.”

Rumley co-wrote SKIN with THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT scribe Adam Alleca; Trevor Albert (GROUNDHOG’S DAY) and James Keach (WALK THE LINE) are on board as producers and are currently putting together the financing.

Rumley didn’t mention THE CHERISHED ONE, so I’m not sure if that project has gone away or not. What is for sure is that he recently finished his segment of the ambitious anthology THE ABCS OF DEATH, which we should see at some point in 2012.

LITTLE DEATHS actress Kate Braithwaite