‘Boy Kills World’ Producer Alex Lebovici Breaks Down His Journey From Window Washing To A “Calculated Gamble” With Hammerstone Studios
deadline.comFive-plus years following the launch of his film financing and production company, Hammerstone Studios, producer Alex Lebovici finds himself at “a big turning point.” After working for years on “building block” projects that held little to no interest for him on the level of story, he’s been able of late to assemble an increasingly packed studio slate, devoting himself solely to making the “fun, commercial, star-driven films” he likes to watch.
Breaking out in September 2022 with the buzzy horror thriller Barbarian, underscoring the company’s commitment to fresh genre fare with big, original ideas, Hammerstone is looking to recapture the zeitgeist this weekend with Boy Kills World, an action thriller starring Barbarian‘s Bill Skarsgård.
Directed by Moritz Mohr, the film has him playing Boy, who vows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that earlier in life left him orphaned, deaf and voiceless.
Boy Kills World has weathered an unusual path to theaters, world premiering at TIFF in the midst of an actor’s strike, and with no talent on hand for publicity.
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