My Next Film Is Called Stormfront
One film, three stories, three worlds, all caught under the same storm. The trailer is out now, and the film arrives in 2026.
By Alexander Kiesel, film producer, director, and founder of Periti Studios.
The trailer went up on the studio channel this week, so I can finally talk about this properly. My next film is called Stormfront. It arrives in 2026, and it is built differently from anything I have made so far.
Where the idea came from
It started with a picture I couldn't shake: the same thunderstorm falling on three places that should never share weather. A county road on the plains. A farmhouse the night after a funeral. A cliff above a cold sea that is on no map at all. For a while I tried to force those into one continuous story, and it kept dying on the page. The moment I stopped forcing it, the structure showed up on its own. Three chapters. One sky.
Why an anthology
Each of the three stories wanted to be a different kind of film, and the anthology format lets them be exactly that. Tempest, the plains chapter, is a disaster film about a storm-chaser named Mara Reyes who realizes the supercell she is chasing behaves like it knows her. Hollow Ground is slow horror: June, alone in a blacked-out farmhouse, watching something in the tree line get closer with every lightning flash. And Heart of Thunder is myth, with a goddess named Saya waking after a thousand years to a sky that answers her.
Genre does real work here. The same storm feels different in each world because each world is allowed to keep its own rules. What binds the film together is the sky, and the question the trailer refuses to answer: how does one storm reach all three?
The trailer
The full chapter breakdown lives on the Stormfront film page, and more stills and release details will land there as we get closer. 2026 is going to be loud.