Paramount is channeling Steven Spielberg’s classic Duel with Big Rig, a thriller pitch from Bragi Schut with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes on board to produce, THR writes. Plot details are being kept locked in the cab, but the project is described as taking loose inspiration from Canada’s infamous Highway of Tears, which runs through British Columbia. […]...
- 10/3/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Paramount is hitting the road with Big Rig.
The Melrose Avenue studio has picked up the thriller pitch from Bragi Schut with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes on board to produce.
Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce with Bay.
Plot details are being kept locked in the cab, but the project is described as taking loose inspiration from Canada’s infamous Highway of Tears, which runs through British Columbia. Over the course of four decades, numerous women have either been murdered or gone missing along that 700-plus kilometer stretch of road.
It is known that the plot, taking a nod from...
The Melrose Avenue studio has picked up the thriller pitch from Bragi Schut with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes on board to produce.
Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce with Bay.
Plot details are being kept locked in the cab, but the project is described as taking loose inspiration from Canada’s infamous Highway of Tears, which runs through British Columbia. Over the course of four decades, numerous women have either been murdered or gone missing along that 700-plus kilometer stretch of road.
It is known that the plot, taking a nod from...
- 10/3/2017
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Highway of Tears
Written and directed by Matthew Smiley
Canada, 2014
The Highway of Tears refers to a section of Highway 16 in British Columbia where 18 official and at least 40 unconfirmed women have gone missing or been found murdered. The majority of them have been indigenous women, and the area itself reflects a dark history of abuses and systematic racism. It is 724 km stretch of road with countless gravel roads in different states of disrepair shooting off of it like small tributaries. Without a car this area is treacherous, and few of the towns along the huge stretch of country have doctors, schools or opportunities for employment. There is barely any transit for those without cars (and with high levels of poverty, many don’t have them), leading many to resort to hitchhiking.
Statistics lay the backdrop to Matthew Smiley’s Highway of Tears. There are 582 reported missing indigenous women in Canada,...
Written and directed by Matthew Smiley
Canada, 2014
The Highway of Tears refers to a section of Highway 16 in British Columbia where 18 official and at least 40 unconfirmed women have gone missing or been found murdered. The majority of them have been indigenous women, and the area itself reflects a dark history of abuses and systematic racism. It is 724 km stretch of road with countless gravel roads in different states of disrepair shooting off of it like small tributaries. Without a car this area is treacherous, and few of the towns along the huge stretch of country have doctors, schools or opportunities for employment. There is barely any transit for those without cars (and with high levels of poverty, many don’t have them), leading many to resort to hitchhiking.
Statistics lay the backdrop to Matthew Smiley’s Highway of Tears. There are 582 reported missing indigenous women in Canada,...
- 5/18/2015
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
Add this week's episode of Grimm to the file marked "filler". Shouldn't things be moving faster this close to the season end?
This review contains spoilers.
4.18 Mishipeshu
Fans of the show will acknowledge Grimm takes the phrase ‘slow burner’ to a whole new level. (The mystical key plotline was introduced about a thousand years ago and we’re still none the wiser approaching the end of the fourth season.)
Grimm’s writers prefer to drip-feed us clues about character development or plot over several episodes, or even seasons, presumably favouring a slow build of anticipation over real momentum. We have come to accept this, despite some storylines feeling laboriously drawn-out, and others paid lip service seemingly only when the writers remember them (anyone seen Nick ‘grey-out’ lately?)
Perhaps one of the problems lies in the fact that it is a 22-epsiode season, which is an awfully long time to maintain momentum.
This review contains spoilers.
4.18 Mishipeshu
Fans of the show will acknowledge Grimm takes the phrase ‘slow burner’ to a whole new level. (The mystical key plotline was introduced about a thousand years ago and we’re still none the wiser approaching the end of the fourth season.)
Grimm’s writers prefer to drip-feed us clues about character development or plot over several episodes, or even seasons, presumably favouring a slow build of anticipation over real momentum. We have come to accept this, despite some storylines feeling laboriously drawn-out, and others paid lip service seemingly only when the writers remember them (anyone seen Nick ‘grey-out’ lately?)
Perhaps one of the problems lies in the fact that it is a 22-epsiode season, which is an awfully long time to maintain momentum.
- 4/20/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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