{"id":6314,"date":"2022-12-30T05:41:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T05:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=6314"},"modified":"2023-02-02T05:43:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:43:36","slug":"deadline-nanny-12-30-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/deadline-nanny-12-30-22\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nanny\u2019: Read The Screenplay For Nikyatu Jusu\u2019s Sundance Horror Breakout"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2018Nanny\u2019: Read The Screenplay For Nikyatu Jusu\u2019s Sundance Horror Breakout: <\/h1>\n

Editors note: Deadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year\u2019s movie awards race.<\/p>\n

When writer-director Nikyatu Jusu began hatching her first feature Nanny a little less than a decade ago, she worried that the story at hand might be \u201ctoo singular\u201d or \u201cspecific\u201d to resonate widely. \u201cWhen you\u2019re this close to the material, you can lose your mind,\u201d she said during a November appearance at Deadline\u2019s Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event.<\/p>\n

The project was particularly \u201cpersonal\u201d for Jusu given the fact that it spoke to the story of her mother \u2014 a native of Sierra Leone often forced to do jobs \u201cthat were beneath her,\u201d including domestic work, after moving to the U.S. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was always worried about how she was being treated in these households,\u201d she shared, \u201cas a very fiercely protective child of my mother. That was the springboard.\u201d <\/p>\n

Debuting on Prime Video on December 16 after hitting limited theaters on November 23rd, Nanny follows the Senegalese immigrant Aisha (Anna Diop) as she attempts to piece together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family. During this time, she is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream. <\/p>\n

Jusu knew from the beginning that she wanted to infuse the film with \u201celements of horror\u201d rather than playing it as \u201ca straightforward drama,\u201d in this way getting at something deeper. \u201cThe darker genres allow you to tell the truth in a way that is really titillating and interesting,\u201d she told Deadline at Contenders, \u201cand pulls the audience in a way that doesn\u2019t feel preachy or pedantic.\u201d <\/p>\n

For Jusu, Nanny has represented a career breakthrough, allowing her to set up multiple studio features including an adaptation of her acclaimed horror short Suicide by Sunlight for Monkeypaw and Universal, and a Night of the Living Dead sequel recently acquired by MGM. Her first feature\u2019s trajectory appeared all but sealed following its debut at Sundance, where it became the first horror to win the Grand Jury Prize, with Jusu becoming the second Black female filmmaker to win that coveted award. Pic was acquired months later by Prime Video and Blumhouse in a deal worth $7 million. <\/p>\n

Jusu also exec produced Nanny, which has recently led the Palm Springs Film Festival to name her as one of its Directors to Watch, and secured her a Someone to Watch Award nom at the Independent Spirit Awards.<\/p>\n

Read her script and view this article at Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Nanny\u2019: Read The Screenplay For Nikyatu Jusu\u2019s Sundance Horror Breakout: Editors note: Deadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year\u2019s movie awards race. When writer-director Nikyatu Jusu began hatching her first feature Nanny a little less than a decade ago, she worried that the
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