Producers talk "Demeter", "Swan", "Song", and "Zero"!
Producers Mike Medavoy and Brad Fischer, recently talked with genre site FEARNET about their upcoming new Dracula tale, The Last Voyage Of The Demeter, a film which follows the ship that carried Dracula's coffin from Transylvania to England. The film is based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" novel, and producer Fischer had the following to say regarding the forthcoming project..."When I picked up the script, it just struck me as such a great idea," he tells FEARNET. "Because I'd always been a fan of the Stoker novel, and the Dracula mythology and lore. And that chapter, which -- if you go back and look at the Stoker novel -- is basically told through the captain's diary, from when he was on the boat. The boat was chartered to go from Varna to London, and there were these boxes of earth that were being put on it, and one of these boxes of earth was Nosferatu himself; and he was feeding off of the crew members as the boat made its journey.
The captain's log - the way that it's structured in the book - it actually starts off with someone who was a journalist, who is among this group of people when the boat crashes into the rocks at Whitby. And he finds this water-soaked log book. Just by reading these entries, which grow - starting off with descriptions of an "unsettled feeling among the crew that there's a presence on the boat, someone who can't be accounted for" - into varying increasing degrees of paranoia. Crew members go missing; no one had actually dramatized what happened on the ship. And Bragi Schut, who wrote Season of the Witch - this was actually his first script that he wrote, before Season of the Witch – he came up with this idea to tell the story of what unfolded. It's told from the point of view of a guy who's just desperate to get to London. And he just gets on the wrong boat basically." The duo then went on to update the status of the upcoming Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman supernatural chiller Black Swan, which is due out next year.
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"It's shooting right now. It's in production, we're getting kind of toward the end of photography," Fischer explains. "It's shooting here in New York City. (I'll probably pop by the set - Mike and I are gonna go by before we head off to Europe.) It's going great. The dailies look amazing; it's Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis." Fischer then moved on to speak about the mysterious new genre project he's working on with Takashi Shimizu, which involves a haunted song that drives it's listeners to suicide. "It's still untitled. We refer to it as "The Untitled Haunted Song Project", he says. "Yeah, it's about these two girls who move into an apartment in New York. They just graduated from college, and they have an internship at a New York Times type newspaper. They find these reel-to-reel tapes in the closet, that are old. They track down the source of them, and they realize that they are the original recordings made by the singer-songwriter who lived there previously, in the '80s, who was somewhat obscure but became kind of notorious because he wrote what many refer to as a suicide song; that was linked to the suicides of a lot of people who listened to it. On listening to it, something happened and they became extremely distraught." |
Lastly, Fischer also made mention of the long-delayed horror pic Mile Zero, revealing an interesting casting tidbit along the way. "Mile Zero is something we've been working on for quite a long time. Milla Jovovich is attached to it," Fischer reveals. "It takes place at the origin of the Alaska pipeline, and it's tonally not dissimilar to The Shining in some ways. So that's something. Again, it takes a long time to get some of these films off the ground. Some move faster than others. Shutter Island actually was pretty quick as these things go. We were greenlit by Paramount, I think, within the original eighteen-month option on the book. But some movies take a lot longer than that - some take ten years and some never get done. So it's definitely always challenging." Milla Jovovich in "Mile Zero"? Sounds good to me!
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