Video: You might be more use to seeing him behind the controls of an X-Wing, dancing with robots, or fighting the X-Men, but this short film is quite unlike anything you’ve seen Oscar Isaac done before — and it’s very weird and wonderful.
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Directed and written by Brian Petsos, Lightningface is the strange origin story of the titular superhero — AKA Basil Stitt, a man who one day gets hit in the face with lightning. It isn’t exactly a radioactive spider, but it gets the job done in kickstarting Stitt’s transformation from ordinary man to… well, let’s just say less ordinary.
Lightningface might be billed as a superhero origin but it’s much more than that — it’s haunting and perplexing, and very unnerving in all the right ways, as Basil slips further into madness before being reborn as the titular hero. If anything, it’s an excuse to watch Isaac act his proverbial socks off in some very weird ways.
[Vimeo]