The First Omen Director on Avoiding NC-17 and Embracing the Female Body
Arkasha Stevenson spoke to MovieWeb about fighting for her R rating versus NC-17 and the joys of working with big names like Bill Nighy.
Grab a pen, film franchise contributors. The new prequel to The Omen (1976) doesn't just go through the motions. Instead, The First Omen makes a grand statement about the times we live in, to thrilling and horrifying effect. It's all thanks to co-writer/director Arkasha Stevenson, who weaves pertinent themes of women's autonomy and reproductive freedom into her darkly subversive tale about the eerie events that transpired and led to the evil yet fictitious Damien's reign. The demonic boy's adoptive parents failed to put an end to his literal evil ways, and a film franchise ultimately spawned from Richard Donner's classic.
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