By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The horror parody of Mickey Mouse’s debut outing, set on the Staten Island Ferry, will be out right after April Fools’ Day.
IndieWire has debuted the trailer for SCREAMBOAT, which Iconic Events Releasing will give a limited opening in select theaters April 2, followed by digital and home-video release by DeskPop Entertainment. Directed by Steven LaMorte (THE MEAN ONE) from a script he wrote with Matthew Garcia-Dunn, it stars David Howard Thornton (Art the Clown himself), Allison Pittel, Amy Schumacher, Jesse Posey, Jesse Kove, Kailey Hyman, Rumi C Jean-Louis, Jarlath Conroy (George A. Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD) and Charles Edwin Powell, with cameos by Tyler Posey (TEEN WOLF), Brian Quinn (IMPRACTICAL JOKERS) and stand-up comedian Joe DeRosa. The synopsis: “Be our guest on a New York City ferry ride that turns into a hilarious nightmare when a mischievous mouse named Steamboat Willie becomes a monstrous reality. As passengers set sail, their trip turns deadly when the tiny terror unleashes murder and mayhem.”
“For Willie, I wanted to base a lot of his movements and everything off of the original cartoon,” Thornton tells IndieWire, “and so I of course went back and rewatched the original several times just to get how he bops around a little bit. I also discovered some things with the prosthetics too, where I could make my nose twitch if I wanted to, if I breathed a certain way. So there’s a scene in the movie where my nose is twitching while I’m smelling the air, and that was actually me just figuring that out from the inside.”
