Writer Diablo Cody is doing the rounds to promote her new horror film LISA FRANKENSTEIN, and she chatted to Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew podcast about her 2009 cult flick JENNIFER’S BODY and the re-appraisal that’s happened in the past few years – we screened the film as part of a double bill with THE CRAFT just last March at the Mini-Cini!
Cody told the Boo Crew, “I mean it’s gotten progressively happier for me. At first I was like, I was excited about it obviously, but I was also a little bit salty because I remember thinking, well where was this audience when the movie came out. It was a critical, commercial failure. I was pretty humiliated to be perfectly honest with you. It was a rough experience having that movie come out. It was rough for me, it was rough for Megan [Fox]… [then] people started suddenly talking about it like it was a good movie, which I had thought all along.”
“At first I just thought, oh where was this audience when I needed it and then I realized they were like…seven,” Cody continues. “And then some people who maybe didn’t appreciate it at the time have come around and now I’m just like, there’s no saltiness, now I’m just happy.”
As for a sequel?
“YES! I wanna do a sequel,” Cody excitedly says. “I am not done with JENNIFER’S BODY. I just need to find… I need to partner with people who believe it in as much as I do and that hasn’t really happened yet. I need someone to believe in it who has a billion dollars.”