The First Omen hits theaters April 5!
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The First Omen, a prequel to 1976's The Omen, follows Margaret Daino, who is set to begin her life of service to the church in Rome. The young nun begins working in an orphanage, but concerning events lead Margaret to question her faith. As darkness begins to overtake her life, she discovers that she is unwittingly at the center of a plot to bring evil incarnate into the world.
Keith Levine: We were just excited to play in the world of The Omen. I think whenever we do something that's with IP or within a story that has a bunch of followers and people already respect, we always say, "Well, what makes this first movie amazing? What do people love about it? Why did it spawn three sequels, and a remake, and a TV show? What made it endure?" So we distill it down to its core elements, and we make sure those things are going to be included.
Keith Levine: Margaret is the heart and soul of the movie, obviously, and we needed somebody who could do just that. She starts off she's quiet, and she's an introvert, so we needed somebody who could just grab you and pull you in solely on their presence. I have been a massive fan of Nell's from her work on Servant. Also, what was cool was that we were looking for somebody who maybe hadn't been in a ton of genre movies already.
The original film is famous for its practical effects and stunts. With the advancements in technology, how do you balance the practical effects in CG in the first element? The First Omen's R Rating Was "A Battle Every Step Of The Way" I feel like this version of The First Omen actually is the new bar for a lot of what we're going to see in Hollywood going forward. I know that you guys had to fight hard for your R rating, from that NC-17. Is that something you could talk about a little bit?
Sometimes you feel like you hold your head low after some of these battles 'cause you feel like you've neutered something. Here it was like, "Did we just make this better?" I think that's what ended up happening. So, we want to give them almost a shout-out. They truly helped us find the scene, and now it's even more visceral and more powerful. So it was one of those things where the process... I think they think they won, but we feel like we really won.
It just butts right up against it. I also can't really think of anything else in the horror space that has worked like that. That was another thing that excited me to do this. We have worked in a lot of franchises, and we've done reboots, and we've taken titles and started fresh. I don't know, just that idea of doing something that really locked right in with the original was so cool. That was a North Star for us in a lot of ways.
What was so cool here was that, when Arkasha came in, we just dialed all that up, and it just got so much more prevalent. But also, still being an entertaining film. Hopefully people go into this, and they're looking away, they're throwing their popcorn, but also they walk away a little bit with some of these themes that we've touched upon and slid into the entertainment.
She really, really didn't want to make something that was just basic and would just sit there. She wanted to make something that would provoke a reaction, and felt like it had some gusto behind it and took a big swing, and I think that's what we did. Back in '76, the trajectory of horror has changed. What fans now expect from horror movies is different from what they expected back in the 70s. So how do you stay true to the era that this story takes place in, but update it for a modern audience?
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