While we wait for Nanny to debut on Amazon Prime Video on December 16 – it’s first coming to select theaters on November 23 – director Nikyatu Jusu has set up her next project.
Deadline reports that Jusu will be directing a feature length adaptation of her vampire short film Suicide By Sunlight for Jordan Peele‘s company, Monkeypaw Productions.
“My project with Monkeypaw is an expansion of a short film I made called Suicide by Sunlight,” Jusu says, “about day-walking Black vampires who are protected from the sun by their melanin.”
Deadline also notes, “… the original piece, set in a near-future New York City, more specifically tells the story of Valentina (Natalie Paul), who finds it difficult to suppress her bloodlust when a new woman is introduced to her estranged twin daughters.”
Jusu is writing the feature film screenplay with Fredrica Bailey.
Suicide By Sunlight is part of Monkeypaw’s overall deal with Universal Pictures.
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