While the title might suggest a dark gritty revival to the 90s Disney series Boy Meets World, Boy Kills World is actually a kick ass action romp starring a jacked Pennywise aka Bill Skarsgård. The first trailer has landed, and aside from Bill looking in action star shape, his character is deaf and mute, seeking revenge against the crime family responsible for the death of his family. So far, it is a revenge story by numbers, but in addition to some fresh-looking action, Moritz Mohr’s movie has an ace up its sleeve with the legend H. Jon Benjamin, aka Sterling Archer/Bob Belcher, voicing Bill Skarsgård’s character inner voice.
I am now 100% in for this movie, the trailer (as trailers today tend to be) contains far too much from the movie, but Boy Kills World could be a lot of fun. Produced by Sam Raimi and Roy Lee, the movie also stars Jessica Rothe, Yayan Ruhian, Isaiah Mustafa, Andrew Koji, Famke Janssen, Brett Gelman, Sharlto Copley and Michelle Dockery. Boy Kills World is set for release in April; check out the trailer below.
Skarsgård stars as “Boy” who vows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy (Janssen), the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deaf and voiceless. Driven by his inner voice, one which he co-opted from his favorite childhood video game, Boy trains with a mysterious shaman (Ruhian) to become an instrument of death and is set loose on the eve of the annual culling of dissidents. Bedlam ensues as Boy commits bloody martial arts mayhem, inciting a wrath of carnage and blood-letting. As he tries to get his bearings in this delirious realm, Boy soon falls in with a desperate resistance group, all the while bickering with the apparent ghost of his rebellious little sister.