
The Ranger
I went to school and majored in screenwriting at this college, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The Ranger was [then classmate, now co-writer of The Ranger Giaco Furino’s] project for his senior screenplay. I was always just super into the concept of punks versus a park ranger, because it felt like something that I should have already seen, like some ’80’s movie or something. It brought to mind all these super colorful visuals, it’s all comic booky and stuff. So I was always just … you know, he’s one of my good friends. I was always just, “Yeah, that idea is so cool.”
Then it took a couple more years before I started making movies and working for the production company Glass Eye Pix and really understanding how movies are made. I produced several movies for them. Then anyway, I started to think about what I wanted to do for my first feature as a director, and I remembered his screenplay. So I called him and I was like, “Yo, can you find that script, and can we work on this together, put our own sensibilities now into it now that we’ve been out in the world a little bit and more known a little bit? And can we work on it?” He was super into the idea, so then we … that was probably in 2014, so between 2014 and 2016 we were kind of working on it off and on. Then in 2016, I started trying to raise money, and then we shot in 2017.
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Genre: Horror
Director: Jenn Wexler
Actors: Amanda Grace Benitez, Bubba Weiler, Chloe Levine, Granit Lahu, Jeremy Holm, Jeremy Pope, Larry Fessenden
Country: USA