Steven C. Miller made his feature directorial debut with the indie zombie movie Automaton Transfusion, which was shot on a very low budget with an affordable digital camera and then managed to land distribution from Dimension. Since then he has been working on a steady stream of horror and action films – Scream of the Banshee, The Aggression Scale, Under the Bed, Silent Night, Extraction (the one with Bruce Willis), Submerged, Marauders, Arsenal, First Kill, Escape Plan 2: Hades, Line of Duty. This summer, he'll be going into production on another horror-thriller, Margaux, which he's making for Brad Krevoy's Motion Picture Corporation of America. Madison Pettis (American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules), Vanessa Morgan (Riverdale), and Richard Harmon (Continuum) are set to star.
Written by Nick Waters and Chris Beyrooty, Margaux will follow
a group of college friends who rent a smart house for a weekend of partying. However, they slowly start to realize that Margaux, the house’s super advanced AI system, has sinister designs for them.
Home AI systems are going haywire more and more these days. Just a couple weeks ago, we heard that Alice Braga is going to be terrorized by a house's AI system in a movie called Ivy, which reminded me of a movie called Tau where Maika Monroe had to deal with a house's AI system. Now we've got Margaux in the mix.
Brad Krevoy is producing Margaux. Motion Picture Corporation of America's Eric Jarboe, Amanda Phillips, Amy Krell, Lorenzo Nardini, and Charles Cohen serve as executive producers alongside Waters and Beyrooty. Jamie Goehring's Lighthouse Pictures is producing in Vancouver, where filming will take place.
As that first paragraph indicates, I have been keeping a close eye on Miller's filmography ever since Automaton Transfusion. I had the same type of camera he made that movie with, but I never made the movie I intended to make with my camera. He went for it, and it's been cool to see him build a career on that foundation.