UPDATE (4/18/2018):

Penn Jillette recently confirmed via Twitter that Director’s Cut will be getting a physical Blu-Ray/DVD combo release in stores on May 29, the same day it’ll be hitting video-on-demand services.

Our friend @ClarkCollis from @EW just debuted the new NSFW trailer to DIRECTOR’S CUT! In select theaters May 10th & 11th. On VOD and a Blu-Ray/DVD combo May 29th! https://t.co/5MJU2skAJZ

— Penn Jillette (@pennjillette) April 17, 2018

Original story:

We’ve covered Director’s Cut, the wild, fourth-wall-breaking meta-thriller written by and starring Penn Jillette before here at GeniiOnline, and ever since we found out about it we’ve been dying to know how it turned out. Looks like we won’t have to wait long, as Penn has announced via Twitter that the film will finally be released in theaters and video-on-demand services in May.

"This is it! Check out the new poster for my movie with @AdamRifkin DIRECTOR'S CUT! (Designed by @johnnyoliver81!) Coming to select theaters 5/10-5/11 and VOD on 5/29 from @DreadPresents!" pic.twitter.com/Q2NIhz2U2N

— Penn Jillette (@pennjillette) April 5, 2018

If this is your first time hearing about the film (or you’re need another explanation to try to wrap your head around it), Director’s Cut is a movie-in-a-movie, where amateur film maker (and 100% creep) Herbert Blount wants to make the definitive version of one of his favorite crime dramas. To do this, he kidnaps the lead actress and films all new scenes, which he then splices into the film. The film itself is the result of this bizarre collision of fiction and “reality”. If all this sounds too weird to believe, see it for yourself in the trailer below.

Director’s Cut was originally conceived by Penn as a challenge to himself, according to Entertainment Weekly, “to see if I could justify two plotlines, running simultaneously, and have it be believable.” After pitching the film unsuccessfully to Hollywood, he finally found director Adam Rifkin (Look), and the two successfully Kickstarted the film back in 2014. It appeared at film festivals like Slamdance back in 2016, but a wider release was uncertain until Epic Pictures’ horror label Dread Central picked it up back in 2017. 

Now, the film will open in select theaters on May 10 and 11, and will also hit currently undisclosed VOD services on May 29. I for one can’t wait for Penn to find another way to turn my brain into liquid.