You might blink twice when you see the new title of Zöe Kravitz’s directorial debut.
The 35-year-old’s feature film, “P—y Island,” has been given a much more G-rated name — “Blink Twice.”
It also has a new release date for Aug. 23, Amazon MGM Studios announced Friday.
The “Divergent” star and Lolawolf singer wrote the film with E.T. Feigenbaum and it also stars her fiancé, Channing Tatum.
The story follows Slater King (played by Tatum), a tech executive who invites a cocktail waitress named Frida (Naomi Ackie) to his private island for some ill-fated fun.
“There is something wrong with this place. She’ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive,” the logline reads.
Alia Shawkat, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis round out the cast.
Several fans on social media were shocked at the title change, with one person jokingly writing: “An awful decision, the job of a title is connote tone and be memorable they gave it all away RIP p—y island we loved you.”
“They changed the name from p—y island … this is devastating,” someone else scoffed.
Another fan added: “Changing the title of ‘P—y Island’ to ‘Blink Twice’ — we live in a sexless society.”
However, the “Batman” star said in 2022 that she would not be changing her NSFW movie name, since the plot is based on stories Kravitz has heard about rich men bringing women to remote islands for wild nights.
“The title came from that world. The title is the seed of the story,” Kravitz told WSJ Magazine at the time. “It represents this time where it would be acceptable for a group of men to call a place that, and the illusion that we’re out of that time now.”
The actress, whose dad is rock star Lenny Kravitz, also noted that she had penned the script before the #MeToo movement arose in 2017.
She explained the story gained traction because it was “born out of” the same “anger and frustration around the lack of conversation about the treatment of women, specifically in industries that have a lot of money in them, like Hollywood, the tech world, all of that.”
In February 2022, Kravitz revealed she rewrote the screenplay following the #MeToo movement and the sexual abuse allegations against ex-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
She told Elle that her story was inspired by “the lack of conversation around the way women are treated specifically in the entertainment industry.”
“I started writing it pre-#MeToo, pre-Harvey [Weinstein]. Then the world started to have the conversation, so [the script] changed a lot,” Kravitz stated at the time. “It became more about a power struggle and what that power struggle means. I rewrote it a million times. Now we’re like, ‘Holy s–t. We’re doing this!’”
