Exclusive: Team behind Triangle and Detour working on thriller; Dan Films slate includes $2-20m projects.
UK director Christopher Smith (Get Santa) is to write and direct thriller The Undertaker for regular collaborator Julie Baines of Dan Films.
Smith is currently writing The Undertaker, which is about a former Ira man living quietly in a remote part of Nova Scotia, Canada. While he is ashamed of his violent past but he is forced to take on one last job - killing a paedophile priest who works at the Vatican.
Backing for the project is set to come from London-based Catalyst Global Media, which will produce alongside Dan Films.
The $15m film is being put together as a co-production and is set to shoot in Canada, Northern Ireland and Italy.
Smith and Baines’ latest feature Detour (sold by Bankside and picked up by Magnet for the Us in Cannes), starring Tye Sheridan and Bel Powley, has been screening...
UK director Christopher Smith (Get Santa) is to write and direct thriller The Undertaker for regular collaborator Julie Baines of Dan Films.
Smith is currently writing The Undertaker, which is about a former Ira man living quietly in a remote part of Nova Scotia, Canada. While he is ashamed of his violent past but he is forced to take on one last job - killing a paedophile priest who works at the Vatican.
Backing for the project is set to come from London-based Catalyst Global Media, which will produce alongside Dan Films.
The $15m film is being put together as a co-production and is set to shoot in Canada, Northern Ireland and Italy.
Smith and Baines’ latest feature Detour (sold by Bankside and picked up by Magnet for the Us in Cannes), starring Tye Sheridan and Bel Powley, has been screening...
- 7/7/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Update: Casting is underway and plans are under the way for a late year/early next year shoot
As a big fan of Jeff Noon, I'm hoping there will be a run on his material someday beginning with the excellent Nymphomation which I think Terry Gilliam could only do justice, but in the meantime, one of his short stories from Pixel Juice has a planned adaptation in the works by the folks who did the excellent Triangle, and apparently there was a sales teaser shot which was shown at the last Berlinale. We have two stills from it and I'm hoping we can talk them into releasing their promo piece.
60 years into the future, Civilization is divided. The Creeping Zero team are employed to protect their fellow humans from having their faces taken by the Fumati. But when your image can be stolen, how can you know who you are.
As a big fan of Jeff Noon, I'm hoping there will be a run on his material someday beginning with the excellent Nymphomation which I think Terry Gilliam could only do justice, but in the meantime, one of his short stories from Pixel Juice has a planned adaptation in the works by the folks who did the excellent Triangle, and apparently there was a sales teaser shot which was shown at the last Berlinale. We have two stills from it and I'm hoping we can talk them into releasing their promo piece.
60 years into the future, Civilization is divided. The Creeping Zero team are employed to protect their fellow humans from having their faces taken by the Fumati. But when your image can be stolen, how can you know who you are.
- 7/27/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Back when I was in highschool, Jeff Noon's "Vurt" was easily my favorite book. Heavily influenced by equal parts Irvine Welsh, William Gibson and "Alice in Wonderland," the book is dystopian cyberpunk on meth. I also remember that the rights were picked up by UK production house, Pathe, but then everything feel to s#!% when it was decided the project was unfilmable.
Another book that really got to me was "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. Coincidently it is also a Cyberpunk book, though when I learned that Stephensen was one of the most erudite and prolific contemporary science fiction writers around, I picked up two more of his books: the code-breaker tome, "Cryptonomicon" and "The Diamond Age." A couple years back, George Clooney's production company reported it would a mini-series based on "The Diamond Age." Nothing has happened since, and I highly doubt anything will.
So now I...
Another book that really got to me was "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. Coincidently it is also a Cyberpunk book, though when I learned that Stephensen was one of the most erudite and prolific contemporary science fiction writers around, I picked up two more of his books: the code-breaker tome, "Cryptonomicon" and "The Diamond Age." A couple years back, George Clooney's production company reported it would a mini-series based on "The Diamond Age." Nothing has happened since, and I highly doubt anything will.
So now I...
- 12/10/2009
- QuietEarth.us
WOUNDINGS
A terrific cast, including the newly hot Guy Pearce ("Memento"), Jonathan Schaech, Emily Lloyd, Ray Winstone and even Twiggy, is the main point of interest in this futuristic thriller about a remote island in wartime populated by soldiers whose emotional and sexual needs are taken care of by women imported for that purpose. While writer-director Roberta Hanley, adapting a play by Jeff Noon, displays real imagination and a powerfully bleak visual style, she's less effective in terms of narrative and characterization, and the film's anti-war message is blunted by a meandering plot line involving the strained relationships that develop among three couples. The acting is first-rate, with strong turns by Schaech as an aggressive officer and a sexy Lloyd as a new recruit who's more than a match for him.
TEA CAKES OR CANNOLI
Probably the only movie you're ever going to see featuring Abe Vigoda in a leading romantic role, Francine Pelligrino's comedy-drama, set in the North End of Boston, depicts the romantic travails of several generations of an Italian family. Joey (Conor Dublin), a hunky 16-year-old, is torn between a local Italian girl and the blueblood debutante who offers sexual and societal upgrading. His mother has a similar choice between her unfaithful boyfriend and the loyal local baker. Meanwhile, Joey's dying grandfather (Vigoda) is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. Although the film is sweet, it suffers from amateurish acting and helming, and the stereotypical dialogue and characterizations are often wince-inducing. And while Vigoda is undeniably touching as the aging romantic, lead actor Dublin looks at least 10 years too old for his role.
MOURNING GLORY
As its punning title might suggest, this debut feature from writer-director Barrett Esposito is too obvious. The tale of two brothers, one of whose moral code is shattered when the other one is senselessly murdered, the film displays an admirable seriousness and sense of purpose, and Bill Sage and Jon Abrahams deliver strong and charismatic performances in the leading roles. But this low-budget effort suffers from a heavy-handed screenplay that sacrifices subtlety for sensation. What is meant to be a gritty morality tale too often comes across as patent melodrama.
A terrific cast, including the newly hot Guy Pearce ("Memento"), Jonathan Schaech, Emily Lloyd, Ray Winstone and even Twiggy, is the main point of interest in this futuristic thriller about a remote island in wartime populated by soldiers whose emotional and sexual needs are taken care of by women imported for that purpose. While writer-director Roberta Hanley, adapting a play by Jeff Noon, displays real imagination and a powerfully bleak visual style, she's less effective in terms of narrative and characterization, and the film's anti-war message is blunted by a meandering plot line involving the strained relationships that develop among three couples. The acting is first-rate, with strong turns by Schaech as an aggressive officer and a sexy Lloyd as a new recruit who's more than a match for him.
TEA CAKES OR CANNOLI
Probably the only movie you're ever going to see featuring Abe Vigoda in a leading romantic role, Francine Pelligrino's comedy-drama, set in the North End of Boston, depicts the romantic travails of several generations of an Italian family. Joey (Conor Dublin), a hunky 16-year-old, is torn between a local Italian girl and the blueblood debutante who offers sexual and societal upgrading. His mother has a similar choice between her unfaithful boyfriend and the loyal local baker. Meanwhile, Joey's dying grandfather (Vigoda) is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. Although the film is sweet, it suffers from amateurish acting and helming, and the stereotypical dialogue and characterizations are often wince-inducing. And while Vigoda is undeniably touching as the aging romantic, lead actor Dublin looks at least 10 years too old for his role.
MOURNING GLORY
As its punning title might suggest, this debut feature from writer-director Barrett Esposito is too obvious. The tale of two brothers, one of whose moral code is shattered when the other one is senselessly murdered, the film displays an admirable seriousness and sense of purpose, and Bill Sage and Jon Abrahams deliver strong and charismatic performances in the leading roles. But this low-budget effort suffers from a heavy-handed screenplay that sacrifices subtlety for sensation. What is meant to be a gritty morality tale too often comes across as patent melodrama.
- 5/15/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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