Writer features S. Florida for first time in latest release
(CAPE CORAL, FL) The world’s only blind film director may have been born in New York, but with his latest release, NAT’L TATTLE, he’s using familiar surroundings: his current stomping grounds.
“I’ve never used Florida as the setting for a story,” Monks said. “Even though I’ve been living here since ’99. With this project, though, the setting is perfect, which is why I want to attract investors looking to shoot a film here.”
In NAT’L TATTLE, tabloid journalists get a tip about strange goings on at the Big Cypress Reservation rest area, and Monks has put together the kind of horror/action film he believes can attract producers to the Everglades.
“It has a little of everything. Government conspiracy theories, illicit medical experimentation, an outlandish cryptid type creature, an editor-in-chief who’s a true believer and wants this tip to be the real thing. Oh, plus helicopters, explosions, and plenty of carnage.”
The NAT’L TATTLE novelette will be released May 27th exclusively on the Godless distribution platform for a limited time, after which the print edition will be released to all distributors and retail outlets…and hopefully to the mailboxes of a number of Hollywood producers.
“Why wouldn’t a studio like Blumhouse or A24 take a look?” Monks asks. “One location, the whole story takes place in a 2-hour time span, and the concept is franchisable. With audiences embracing the classic, bloody 1980s style horror films, this would fit right in.”
