Connecticut-based genre factory Synthetic Cinema sent along word that production has begun on The Opponent, the over-the-top alien-on-Earth opus that marks its sixth feature. The company also revealed a bit of casting news for the movie, including Roddy Piper, who previously tangled with extraterrestrials in John Carpenter’s They Live (pictured).
The Opponent, which we previously reported on here, also stars Jeremy London, who has recently been seen in Sci Fi Channel flicks like Basilisk: The Serpent King and BA’Al: The Storm God. A co-production with India’s Vijay Cine Enterprises, the film is being directed by Colin Theys, a digital FX artist who helmed Synthetic’s upcoming Banshee!!! (premiering on the Chiller network later his year), from a script by John Doolan. The story concerns the havoc that ensues when an alien being crashlands in a rural junkyard, and a cash bounty placed by its owner leads all...
The Opponent, which we previously reported on here, also stars Jeremy London, who has recently been seen in Sci Fi Channel flicks like Basilisk: The Serpent King and BA’Al: The Storm God. A co-production with India’s Vijay Cine Enterprises, the film is being directed by Colin Theys, a digital FX artist who helmed Synthetic’s upcoming Banshee!!! (premiering on the Chiller network later his year), from a script by John Doolan. The story concerns the havoc that ensues when an alien being crashlands in a rural junkyard, and a cash bounty placed by its owner leads all...
- 7/13/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
If Robin Hood is such a great hero you'd think he'd be able to work in some monster fighting in between all his robbing from the rich to give to the poor. That's why all Robin Hood movies in the past have sucked: lack of monsters. Thank goodness we have the Sci-Fi Channel around to rectify such mistakes.
I'd first heard about Robin Hood: Beyond Sherwood what seems like ages ago. It's only just now that progress is being made. Working from a script by Chase Parker, the writer of such other Sci-Fi offerings as Basilisk: The Serpent King, Reign of the Gargoyles, and the all-time classic Boa vs. Python, actor-director Peter DeLuise ("21 Jump Street", "Stargate Sg-1") helms this ultimate tale of merry ol' England's favorite tights-wearing, forest-dwelling, arrow-shooting, always-sticking-it-to-the-man swashbuckler as he squares off with a fiendish monster brought forth by the Sheriff of Nottingham, now in the post-production phase.
I'd first heard about Robin Hood: Beyond Sherwood what seems like ages ago. It's only just now that progress is being made. Working from a script by Chase Parker, the writer of such other Sci-Fi offerings as Basilisk: The Serpent King, Reign of the Gargoyles, and the all-time classic Boa vs. Python, actor-director Peter DeLuise ("21 Jump Street", "Stargate Sg-1") helms this ultimate tale of merry ol' England's favorite tights-wearing, forest-dwelling, arrow-shooting, always-sticking-it-to-the-man swashbuckler as he squares off with a fiendish monster brought forth by the Sheriff of Nottingham, now in the post-production phase.
- 2/12/2009
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Got an email the other day from filmmaker Leigh Scott regarding several upcoming productions from Bullet Films, a subdivision of Blackthorne Industries, the production company he and other ex-Asylum employees formed after escaping The Asylum late last year. The title that immediately popped out to me was Wolvesbayne, a sort of werewolf Hellboy that has just begun filming.
Described as a superhero-type origin film set in a horror film universe, Jeremy London ("Party of Five", Basilisk: The Serpent King) stars as the heroic werewolf who will have to save the world from a Nazi vampire cult leader played by a sword-wielding Marc Dacascos (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Drive) and his vampish cohort, Yancy Butler ("Witchblade", Hard Target). Rounding out the cast are Christy Carlson Romano (the voice of TV's "Kim Possible") as - I'm assuming - the hero's love interest and underrated former Asylum movie regular Rhett Giles as the one and only Van Helsing.
Described as a superhero-type origin film set in a horror film universe, Jeremy London ("Party of Five", Basilisk: The Serpent King) stars as the heroic werewolf who will have to save the world from a Nazi vampire cult leader played by a sword-wielding Marc Dacascos (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Drive) and his vampish cohort, Yancy Butler ("Witchblade", Hard Target). Rounding out the cast are Christy Carlson Romano (the voice of TV's "Kim Possible") as - I'm assuming - the hero's love interest and underrated former Asylum movie regular Rhett Giles as the one and only Van Helsing.
- 7/1/2008
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
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