Lynne Ramsay, auteur behind some of modern cinema’s most unsettling portraits of human darkness, is stepping into new — and bloodier — territory. For the first time in her career, she’s reteaming with a former collaborator: none other than Ezra Miller, who gave a chilling performance in Ramsay’s acclaimed 2011 psychological drama We Need to Talk About Kevin. This time, the pair are diving into the vampire genre.
"I’m making a vampire movie," Ramsay confirmed in a recent interview with The Los Angeles Times. "It’s with Ezra Miller who was in ‘Kevin.’ He’s the main character. That’s in development."
Though Ramsay’s filmography is compact — five features across two decades — each of her films carries the weight and precision of a meticulously sculpted monument. From Ratcatcher to You Were Never Really Here, her stories often teeter on the edge of trauma and existential dread, exploring damaged psyches with poetic restraint. A vampire film might sound like a swerve, but in Ramsay’s hands, it’s unlikely to follow any traditional gothic path.
The project follows the recent Cannes debut of Die, My Love, Ramsay’s long-awaited return to feature filmmaking, adapted from Ariana Harwicz’s novel and brought to her by Jennifer Lawrence. It arrives after the collapse of another planned adaptation — Margaret Atwood’s Stone Mattress — which fell apart due to logistical challenges.
Now, with three scripts in the pipeline and a renewed urgency to create, Ramsay seems poised for a more prolific chapter. "You won’t wait for 10 years, I don’t have them." she told the LAT.
