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’30 Days of Night’ Set Visit: ‘Ginger Snaps’ Star Katherine Isabelle Joins Cast!
This past week Bloody Disgusting’s Evan Katz headed up north to Vancouver to check out the set of Sony Stage 6’s 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, which is currently being directed by Ben Ketai. Beyond the break you’ll find a little teaser from set, which reveals some brand new casting including Ginger Snaps star Katherine Isabelle!
My time on the set of 30 Days of Night (Dark Days) was short, but definitely left an impression. The movie’s currently being filmed at TERMINAL CITY, a very impressive set which used to be a functioning foundry. The very textures of the buildings and neon signs reminded me strongly of the comic itself. Just from the look of the production design, I can tell that Ben Ketai has already done a fantastic job capturing the atmosphere and tone of the series.
While I’d already known about the casting of Kiele Sanchez, Mia Kirschner, Rhys Coiro, Diora Baird, Harold Perrineau, Troy Ruptash, Jackson Berlin, John De Santis, and Marco Sorian… I was pleasantly surprised to find Katherine Isabelle of GINGER SNAPS fame was has a role in the film. I can’t give away too much, but her scene involved a skimpy blue nightgown, fifty degree weather, and a highly unorthodox vampiric initiation ritual. Really screwed up, intense stuff.
One of the producers, J.R. Young, tells me that the style of this entry is slightly different. “While the last one was almost sort of a western… Ben’s approaching this one like a war film.”
Seeing the footage he’s shooting I can get that. There’s a violent, gritty immediacy to the scene that we’re shown; the location definitely has a war-torn vibe to it.
By the end of my set visit, I learned a quite bit more about the vampire language, “vampiric”, the best way to tear out a human throat… and why everything just seems nicer in Vancouver… even its crack infested ghettos. Definitely more to come!”
Yet another brand new shark attack movie is on the way this Summer, with Aura Entertainment bringing director Jesse V. Johnson’s Above & Below to theaters on July 29.
Watch the official trailer for Above & Below… down below.
30 feet below. 10 minutes of oxygen. 1 apex predator.
In shark attack horror movie Above & Below, “Friends embark on a dream vacation of parties and diving, but their trip takes a terrifying turn when criminals attack them at sea.”
This one looks like every other shark movie that’s been released in the last several years, but it’s armed with something that puts it a fin above the competition. Oscar nominated actor Antonio Banderas stars in Above & Below, with the cast also including Christina Ochoa, Laura Marano, Timothy V. Murphy, Louis Mandylor, Jess Liaudin, Ryan Bertroche, Ramiro Alonso, Diego Llinás, Rodrigo Poisón, Mario Tardón, and Donncha Tynan.
Anthony Steven Giordano wrote the screenplay.