Vertical Entertainment’s INHERITANCE On Demand + Digital May 22!
The thriller INHERITANCE will be available on Demand and Digital on May 22, 2020 after it bows on DirecTV on April 23, 2020. Continue on to watch Vertical Entertainment’s INHERITANCE trailer On Demand + Digital…
CelebNMovies247.com has your first look at INHERITANCE which stars Lily Collins (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones), and Simon Pegg (Mission Impossible franchise, Shaun of the Dead).
INHERITANCE also stars Connie Nielsen (Wonder Woman franchise, Gladiator), Chace Crawford (“The Boys,” “Gossip Girl”), Marque Richardson (“Dear White People,” “True Blood”) and Patrick Warburton (“Family Guy,” Get Smart). The film was directed by Vaughn Stein (Terminal, Every Breath You Take) and written by Matthew Kennedy making his screenwriting debut.
SYNOPSIS:
A patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT:
Vaughn Stein explains:
I vividly remember the first time I read INHERITANCE. I had just returned from walking our over-indulged and utterly spoilt dog on a rainy morning in June 2018, having spent the last week finding any excuse not to read the scripts that had sat on my desk for a week, gathering dust. INHERITANCE was the first one I picked up… and I was utterly fixated with it from that moment on.
There is something about this story that is darkly magical. A fusion of the chiller/thriller and the prescient, timely satire that works brilliantly on the page and transferred beautifully onto the screen. INHERITANCE is a film about secrets and lies. About monsters in the basement and skeletons in the closet. About absolute power corrupting absolutely. About money and legacy. About twisted morality and corrosive family loyalty. About the decisions we make to protect our own that can impact so negatively on others. A modern, elegant and simple fable woven into a fraught and taught thriller.
INHERITANCE is also a film about duality. Rich and poor, light and dark, above and below, private lives and public perception. From the concrete canyons of Manhattan to the wild woodlands of upstate New York, the opulent mansions of a family dynasty to the dank darkness of a long-forgotten fallout shelter, grand old courtrooms filled with light to unmarked graves in the dead of night. I wanted to reflect that in all elements of the film’s aesthetic; performance, cinematography, design and editorially. I was blessed with incredible producers and department heads who were instrumental in helping to create a film that twists and turns tonally and visually with the emotional experiences of its characters and tells this brilliant allegorical and sensationalized story in as beautiful, as visceral and as powerful a way as possible… a classic thriller which reflects ugly truths endemic in our world today.
From the very outset, INHERITANCE felt like a film I had to make. I think there is a very specific feeling you get when you find a script that you feel in your bones was somehow written for you. A tingling sensation in the pit of your stomach. A swell of excitement that permeates your mind. A sudden urge to pace around your office visualizing shooting the movie before you’ve even spoken to your agent, let alone the producers. INHERITANCE gave me those feelings in spades. To be able to craft a film full of thrills, chills and spills that also reflects so elegantly and potently many social and political issues that we face today was inspirational for me as a filmmaker. It is a film that I hope is as darkly entertaining as it is satirical and relevant. The dynastical Monroe family at the center of the film are an opaque reflection of so much that is wrong in our world; borne of wealth and influence and looking to exert their power at every turn. ‘A lawyer, a banker and a politician. Quite the family…’ as one of the characters so cutting reflects in the movie. A financier secretly embroiled in a Ponzi-scheme scandal. A Congressman facing allegations of bribery and corruption. An ‘old money’ family convinced of their own self-worth and believing themselves above the law, willing to sacrifice others to preserve themselves; their legacy, their reputation, their status… willing to commit heinous acts and bury them in the back garden in the dead of night to save their own skins.
I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with an astonishing ensemble to create this movie. Lily Collins, who plays Lauren Monroe, the righteous, rebellious and fiercely independent protagonist of the story, who eschews her family money and her birthright to forge her own path. Simon Pegg, who plays the mysterious and unsettling Morgan Warner, who knows the darkest secrets that could destroy the Monroes. Connie Nielsen who plays Catherine Monroe, the bereaved matriarch holding her factional family together. Chace Crawford who plays William Monroe, the suave and pin-sharp Congressman whose campaign for reelection is under threat. They worked tirelessly throughout the shoot with incredible talent, unique ideas and endless patience and good humor.
The playwright and satirist Bertolt Brecht said ‘If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.’ I hope that this film in some way lives up to that lofty aspiration. And I truly hope you have as much fun with it as we had making it.
