The Argentinian spin-off rights to Jimmy and the Stiggs, the neon-drenched, practical-effects-laden alien horror movie written, directed and starring Joe Begos and launched by Eli Roth’s Horror Part, have been optioned by Sebastian de Caro, who will direct the undertaking.
Relatively than being a straight remake, the movie will increase the world created by Bigos into new territory, with new characters dealing with the identical extraterrestrial risk in Argentina.
“Jimmy and the Stiggs” was featured within the Morbidgate IP Showcase, one of many trade’s main initiatives on the Incredible Pavilion at Cannes Movie Marche, and the spin-off deal closed available in the market days later.
Ross and Begos will function govt producers on the undertaking.
Jimmy and the Stiggs premiered at Los Angeles’ Past Fest in 2024 and acquired a U.S. theatrical launch in August 2025 by Roth’s just lately launched style studio, Horror Part.
Shot on 16mm over a interval of roughly 4 years, primarily in Begos’ personal Los Angeles house, the movie follows two estranged mates. Jimmy, an unemployed filmmaker satisfied he is been kidnapped by aliens, and Stiggs, a down-to-earth ex-partner who reunites to confront an impending extraterrestrial risk.
Described as “a restrained, visceral, and wildly entertaining sci-fi horror constructed on sensible results and uncooked vitality,” the movie was hailed by critics as a cult traditional within the making. The Los Angeles Instances known as the movie “purely exhilarating,” whereas Bloody Disgusting known as it “playful, gonzo, and, on a small scale, apocalyptic.”
The movie proved its worldwide enchantment at Spain’s Sitges Movie Pageant.
Argentina is the primary area to increase on the movie’s premise, which could be thought-about a high-concept, universally translatable IP that travels throughout languages, cultures, and markets. So two males, an house, and an alien siege.
“Jimmy and the Stiggs” is the primary acquisition for Horror Part, which Ross launched final yr as an organization centered on proudly owning and managing a premium mental property library of style movies, tv sequence and video games.
Upcoming slates within the horror class embrace Roth’s “Ice Cream Man” and “Do not Enter That Home, Bitch!,” that are scheduled to be launched in theaters on August seventh. Snoop Dogg participates as a screenwriter, producer, and soundtrack performer.
MorbidoGate is a strategic partnership between Globalgate Leisure, an area language movie and tv manufacturing consortium shaped by Lionsgate and 14 main worldwide leisure firms, and Mexico Metropolis-based Grupo Mórbido, Latin America’s main unbelievable movie platform, which operates an annual IP showcase as a part of the Incredible Pavilion.
This initiative connects style IP holders and producers throughout key worldwide markets. The earlier version of the showcase produced “Kam Sepa” (“Turkish Espresso Desk”), the Turkish spin-off of the acclaimed Spanish horror movie “Espresso Desk” and the primary undertaking to come back out of Morbidgate. The movie is at the moment receiving optimistic opinions at prolific worldwide movie festivals after its theatrical launch in Turkey in February.
The Argentinian movie “Jimmy and Stiggs” is the second undertaking to exit the showcase.
As a director, screenwriter, actor, novelist, and cultural essayist, de Caro is one in all Argentina’s most versatile artists, with a profession that has moved between movie, tv, streaming, radio, and literature, and one in all Argentina’s best-known public figures. De Caro’s work as a movie director consists of Rockabilly, Vacciones en la Tierra, Recortadas, 20,000 Besos, Claudia, which opened the 2019 Buenos Aires Worldwide Impartial Movie Pageant, and most just lately, Matrimiras.
He has additionally printed a number of novels underneath Penguin Random Home’s Reservoir Books publication, together with The Adventures of the Creatures, The Farza del Mundo of the World, and the Charles Manson essay, Cielo Drive, which, alongside together with his comedian guide and popular culture essays, have established him as one in all Argentina’s most incisive chroniclers of latest tradition.
De Caro may even co-write the screenplay with Matias Horta, aiming to deliver a uniquely Argentinian voice to the undertaking’s increasing “Jimmy and Stiggs” universe.
“Working with Eli Roth and Joe Begos has been an extremely thrilling journey,” stated De Caro. “‘Jimmy and the Stiggs’ struck me as a beautiful type of insanity. It blew my thoughts with its vitality and humor. And the chance to increase that world in my house nation is the largest artistic problem I’ve ever taken on. Together with Eli Roth, Joe Begos and Morbidgate, it is a dream come true.”
Ross equally expressed his admiration for the Argentine multi-hyphenate. “I am an enormous fan of the group behind Seba de Caro and Morbidgate, and ‘Jimmy and the Stiggs’ is the right template for a way I take a look at films within the horror part.
“Horror is really international, and any story could be tailored to native cultures. I can not wait to see how this movie honors and expands on the extremely unique cinematic universe by the one and solely Joe Begos.”
For Pablo Guisa Kestinger, govt director of Incredible Pavilion and CEO of Morbido Group, the deal additional strengthens Cannes’ position as a style hub in the marketplace.
“The purpose of the Cannes IP Showcase is to strengthen our nice movie trade by bringing collectively travelable IP, no visa required, no matter style,” he stated.
“First we introduced Spanish movies to Turkey, however now we deliver American movies to Argentina. Horror is common, and the Incredible Pavilion is the place to make these connections.”
Meg Thomson, Government Vice President of World Content material at Globalgate Leisure, added, “We’re excited to work with Horror Part and Morbido to seek out an ideal IP with the facility to journey. Begos’ Jimmy and the Stiggs is a wild journey, and imagining aliens invading one other nation is nice. We’re assured Sebastian will deliver a daring strategy to this distinctive IP.”
Thomson and Giesa negotiated the contract with John Schnarz of the horror part.
