‘Mars’ Director Everardo Gout Set to Direct ‘The Purge 5’

With a year to go before the slated release of The Purge 5, Blumhouse Productions, Universal Pictures,  and Platinum Dunes has finally found the man to lead the film in Mars director Everardo Gout according to Variety.

Gout is most known for his work on his 2011 debut feature the Days of Grace. But after that, he has mostly focused on television. He has directed a couple of episodes on Banshee and Luke Cage. And most recently, he was the executive producer and director of the National Geographic limited series Mars. Currently, he is working on the TNT series Snowpiercer which stars Jennifer Connelly.

The Last Purge

The Purge centers on the 12-hour annual free-for-all window where the government deems all crime legal. And as of date, the franchise has garnered a hefty $456 million worldwide. This includes its prequel and the fourth installment, The First Purge, which is currently the highest-grossing film in the franchise.  Though other plot details are still being tightly kept under wraps, The Purge 5 will reportedly focus on the same brutal 12 hours of chaos and brutality, but it will sadly be the last film of the franchise. Franchise creator James DeMonaco, who wrote and directed the first three films in the Purge installment, will return to pen Purge 5. 

“I have it in my head,” DeMonaco said in an interview with ComicBook.com last year. “I think I’m going to write it. I think it’s a great way to end it all. We want to end it all, I think, in this one, and I’m very excited. When I came up with the idea and pitched it to everybody, they seemed psyched, and I think it will be a really cool ending, how we take this one home.”

Jason Blum, who will also be a producer in The Purge 5, also had some words to say about the franchise in its entirety. “The Purge is a cautionary tale…So I think the closer you let into the thinking of how it came to be and why people want it and why people don’t want it, hopefully, that becomes clearer and clearer. But we don’t make the movies to push a message down people’s throat; we make the movies because it’s a fun, crazy, wild idea. But second to that, I don’t think it would be super responsible to have people walking away thinking the movies are propaganda to start a Purge in the United States because I don’t think it would be such good idea.”

Jason Blum, Sebastien K. Lemercier, and Man in a Tree duo De Monaco are all set to produce. In addition to them, Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller, Michael Bay, and Andrew Form are also on board to produce. Universal will release The Purge 5 on July 10, 2020, in North America. Aside from the films, the Purge franchise is also launching The Purge Season 2 later this fall on the USA Network.