Daniels Are Going from “Everything Everywhere All at Once” to a Showtime Pilot “Mason”
(via THR)
For how much the box office is being propped up by studio tentpoles and franchise favorites from the MCU or Top Gun: Maverick, it should be noted that the completely original, literally out-of-this-world genre-bending comedy, Everything Everywhere All at Once has exceeded expectations as A24’s highest grossing movies ever, just surpassing $100 million globally as of this post.
Daniels, the creative filmmaking duo of Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, are riding that much deserved success from their work/the most original movie in recent memory all the way to a pilot order from Showtime that will continue in their surrealist mode. This time, the Daniels will explore the world of “a quiet man named Nathan” whose name is often misheard as Mason, while trying to connect “…in a loud world”.
So, there is hope in original stories after all and it’s thrilling to know that Daniels are leading the charge in regards to that. Between Swiss Army Man and Everything Everywhere All at Once, the pair of them have done some of the most delightful bonkers, out-there cinematic storytelling we’ve seen in the last couple of decades. Wherever Mason ends up going, we have no doubt that it’ll actually be unlike anything we’ve seen before (as opposed to that being a well-worn pull quote for run-of-the-mill action adventure movie).
Oh yeah, Showtime better pick this up especially since they just lost one of their biggest slices of their comedy programming, Desus & Mero.